Dawn Garcia

Dawn is the managing director of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University, an ambitious program focused on journalism innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership. Dawn was a reporter and editor at West Coast newspapers for 18 years, including the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a past president of the Journalism & Women Symposium, a national nonprofit organization of women journalists and journalism educators. She was a member of four Pulitzer Prize juries in journalism and also served on the Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and on the California First Amendment Coalition board.