Dawn Garcia
John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University
Managing director
Dawn Garcia is managing director of the JSK Journalism Fellowships where she has
worked since 2001. She was a newspaper reporter and editor for 18 years at the San Jose
Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle and other dailies. She is a past president of
the Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS), served on four Pulitzer Prize juries in
journalism and was a Knight Fellow at Stanford.