Maynard Institute Staff

Evelyn Hsu, Media Academy Program Director
ehsu@maynardije.org

Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
East Coast Office
11690-C Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191
703-620-0241

Evelyn Hsu is director of programs for the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She began her journalism career at the San Francisco Chronicle where she was a City Hall reporter and a member of the investigative team. She spent eight years at The Washington Post as a metropolitan reporter covering politics and government and as an assistant editor for the paper's weeklies.

From the Post, she joined the American Press Institute in Reston, Va., as an associate director responsible for designing and leading seminars on editing, management and writing.

In 2000, she joined the faculty of the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she worked on programs for students and on mid-career programs on management and writing.

She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and of the Maynard Institute's Summer Program for Minority Journalists.

She is a past national president of the Asian American Journalists Association and was a key organizer of the first UNITY conference that brought together more than 5,000 journalists. She has served on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications and on the board of the Student Press Law Center. She currently serves on the Youth Services Committee of the Newspaper Association of America.

Woody Lewis, Consultant/Web Applications Manager
woodylewis@gmail.com
Woody Lewis designed and built the Maynard Institute's content audit server, a Web-based application used by news organizations to assess the diversity of their sources and the completeness of their coverage. He also publishes content for Web sites affiliated with the institute, and has developed a database application to facilitate fundraising.

Before working with the Maynard Institute, Woody managed pMedia, Inc., a digital media consulting company. Prior to that, he was a solutions architect with Cisco Systems and IBM. He has also been a producer, a management consultant and a corporate banker.

Woody has a B.A. in music and an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University, and an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature from Bennington College.

Dori J. Maynard, President and Chief Executive Officer
djm@maynardije.org

As a reporter, she has experience on both coasts -- The Bakersfield Californian, and The Patriot Ledger, in Quincy, Mass. -- as well as a stint at the Detroit Free Press, covering senate and mayoral campaigns, and City Hall. In 1993 she and her father became the first father-daughter duo ever to be appointed Nieman scholars at Harvard University. Bob Maynard won this prestigious fellowship in 1966. While at Harvard, Dori specialized in research on public policy and poverty. She worked regularly with her father in researching and preparing for his appearances on This Week With David Brinkley and the MacNeil Lehrer Report.

Maynard graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, with a B.A. in American history.

Wil Pomart, New Technology Intern
wpomart@maynardije.org

William Pomart is a college undergraduate student from UC Berkeley. He works with the Maynard Institute multimedia team. He currently helps with editing and shooting video. His interest include films, public health and medicine.

He recognizes the importance of diversity, having people from different backgrounds and points of view in any type of organization that strives to do a public service. Another reason he was interested in the Maynard Institute was after seeing how media have the potential of representing people in a positive or negative light and how this may have repercussions in how the rest of the public reacts to a certain policy or group of people.

He hopes that when it comes to his turn in shaping media through multimedia, he can represent people as accurately as possible.

Harris Rashid, Web Consultant
hrashid@maynardije.org

Harris Rashid designed and built the Maynard Institute website www.mije.org using the open source CMS Drupal.  He also lead the design and development of the Chauncey Bailey Project website.  He has also worked for the San Francisco Bay Guardian as a Web developer. Prior to joining Maynard in early 2007, he held Web administrator positions at various organizations and companies. Originally from Malaysia, he was raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. He graduated from Tufts University and now lives in Oakland. When not geeking out about Drupal, Wordpress, and other open-source projects, Harris enjoys cooking, playing soccer, and music.