Profile: Dorothy Gilliam

DOROTHY B. GILLIAM Co-founder, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education

Dorothy B. Gilliam, a Maynard Institute board member, is the director of the Young Journalists Development Project at The Washington Post. She was formerly a columnist at the paper.

INTRODUCTION

MAYNARD INSTITUTE @ 25
• Our Vision: Seeing Ourselves Whole
• Our History: The First 25 Years
• Profile: Dorothy Gilliam
• Profile: Carmen Rios
• Profile: Mei-Mei Chan
• Our Legacy: The Next 25 Years

ROBERT C. MAYNARD: LIFE & LEGACY
• Maynard: A Tribute (video)
• Maynard's Legacy of Inclusion
• Shining Light of a Poet and Pioneer
• Maynard Image Gallery (flash)

In 1976, when Bob and Nancy Maynard relocated the program from Columbia University to the University of California at Berkeley, our primary focus was keeping the summer program going. But we shared a vision that the Institute could do much more. We needed to go beyond just training people of color as reporters. We needed to train them as editors and as managers.

Bob's knowledge of the First Amendment and his ideas about freedom of thought-those deep concepts-became a part of the Maynard Institute. These concepts shaped the way I work and the way I look at the industry and its potential.

In the end, all of this was, and continues to be, a battle for the hearts and minds of the American people. Newspapers sell ideas. They cannot tell people what to think, but they can certainly tell them what to think about.