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Meet Doris Truong, Deputy Director of the Maynard Institute’s Fire Up Training program

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Doris Truong, Deputy Director of the Maynard Institute’s Fire Up Training Program

Photos of the 50th Class of Knight-Wallace Fellows at the University of Michigan on November, 4, 2023 in Ann Arbor, MI. © Jarrad Henderson, 2023.

Doris Truong is deputy director of the Maynard Institute’s Fire Up training program for journalism entrepreneurs. She is an inclusion expert and facilitator who led teaching and diversity strategies for the Poynter Institute.

She has two decades of daily news experience from The Washington Post and The Dallas Morning News. She served as national president of the Asian American Journalists Association, vice president of UNITY: Journalists for Diversity and a board member on the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

She was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, researching ways journalists can mitigate their own unconscious bias. And she is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism. Find her on most social platforms @doristruong.