Linda is a marketing and communications strategist whose career spans private and public sectors across diverse areas including media, consumer technology, and international development. 

She began her career at the Los Angeles Times as a financial planning department analyst helping the times wrestle with major strategic decisions such as market expansion and new product development. 

Linda previously worked for Gemstar TV Guide, marketing products that helped shape the way consumers interact with screen-based content. Later, she directed her interests back to global development and joined World Vision, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations. 

She currently works as a Senior Consultant for Greater Life Communications, a communications firm serving nonprofit and humanitarian organizations.

Dickson is principal of Louie & Associates, a Bay Area consultancy providing strategic planning, competitive analysis and executive development services to startups, nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies. He is co-founder, president and CEO of Time Capsule Press, a publishing imprint focusing on creating books from archival material.

He has over 25 years of professional management experience in news media, having worked as a planning and business development executive at the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and The Mercury News in San Jose. He helped to oversee launch of the Ventura County and Valley editions at the Times and the Viet Mercury Vietnamese-language weekly at the Mercury News. On the Times Mirror corporate staff, he oversaw finances of its $2 billion newspaper division.

He was a research associate at Harvard Business School, where he authored over 20 management case studies for the second-year MBA course.

He is an adjunct at UC Davis Graduate School of Management and the Executive MBA Program at San Francisco State. He has a bachelor’s in business administration from California State University, East Bay, and an MBA in finance, marketing and statistics from the University of Chicago. He is on the Maynard Institute board.

Prior to being named to the leadership of the organization, Reynolds served as a senior fellow for strategic planning for the institute, helping to oversee the planning and implementation of the “MIJE Re-Imagined” project. Reynolds is co-founder of Oakland Voices, a community storytelling project that trains residents to serve as community correspondents. He was named as Digital First Media’s Innovator of the Year for his work on Oakland Voices.

Before his Maynard fellowship Reynolds was senior editor for community engagement and training for Bay Area News Group and served as editor-in-chief of The Oakland Tribune between 2008-2011. His career with Bay Area News Group spanned 18 years. Reynolds was also a lead editor on the Chauncey Bailey Project, formed in 2007 to investigate the slaying of the former Oakland Post editor and Tribune reporter.

Reynolds has helped to raise millions from foundations to support reporting and community engagement initiatives. Reynolds also conducts Fault Lines® diversity training programs for media companies and colleges and universities. He is a sought-after speaker on the state of diversity, trust and inclusion in journalism.

Evelyn Hsu is co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education where she oversees programs and administration. She is a former associate director of the American Press Institute and served for five years as a member of the faculty of the Poynter Institute.  She was a metropolitan reporter for The Washington Post and covered City Hall for the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a past national president of the Asian American Journalists Association and was vice-president of UNITY, with a major role in organizing its first conference, an event that drew 5000 journalists and media executives. She has served on the boards of numerous journalism and non-profit organizations.