Diversity advocate Dori Maynard dies

Dori Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and longtime champion of diversity in journalism and civic life, died Tuesday of lung cancer at age 56 at her West Oakland, California home.

Dori Maynard

Her father, Robert C. Maynard, was a co-founder of the Institute and publisher of the Oakland Tribune. Nancy Hicks Maynard, also an Institute co-founder, co-publisher of the Tribune, was Dori Maynard's stepmother.

Under Maynard, the Institute's training included Fault Lines, which looked at diversity through the prisms of race, class, gender, generation and geography and BrotherSpeak, a video series looking at the lives of black men through the eyes of black men, done in partnership with The Washington Post.

Maynard was on the board of the Knight Fellowships at Stanford University.

Maynard was a reporter at the Bakersfield Californian, the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts and the Detroit Free Press.

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