Dawn Garcia is director of the John S. Knight (JSK) Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University, a program that coaches and supports diverse journalists from around the world who are creating innovative solutions to journalism’s most urgent problems. A former JSK Fellow herself, Garcia began her career as a reporter and editor at West Coast newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has served on a number of nonprofit journalism boards, including KQED Public Media, the Journalism and Women Symposium, and OpenNews.