Tom is Assistant Managing Editor for Journalism Initiatives atThe Dallas Morning News, where he edits enterprise stories,oversees the newsroom’s internship program and leads the newsroom’s community-funded journalism initiative, which seeks philanthropic support of public service journalism.

Since 2020, he has helped launch The News’ Education Lab, which has expanded education reporting with the support of local foundations; Arts Access, a partnership with KERA that covers arts and culture through an equity lens; and the Dallas Media Collaborative, an alliance of news outlets and universities focused on solutions-based reporting on affordable housing.

As an adjunct faculty member of The Poynter Institute, he organizes seminars for professional journalists on writing, reporting and editing. For the past six years, he has served as a coach in the Poynter Table Stakes program, which helps newsrooms make the transition to sustainable digital publishing.

Maria is a former enterprise editor at the Tampa Bay Times and The Houston Chronicle and, before that, managing editor at The Virginian-Pilot. She has edited dozens of award-winning projects, frequently lectures on narrative journalism, co-hosts a podcast (WriteLane) about craft and has been a Pulitzer Prize juror six times.

She is a board member of the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism. Carrillo was born in Washington, D.C., two years after her parents left Cuba in exile. She now lives in St. Petersburg, Fla., with her husband, and they have two grown children.

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.