Dori J. Maynard is president and CEO of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, the nation’s leading trainer of journalists of color. She is the co-author of “Letters to My Children,” a compilation of nationally syndicated columns by her late father, Bob Maynard, the first African American to own a major metropolitan newspaper. Maynard was a reporter at the The Bakersfield Californian, The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., and the Detroit Free Press. In 1993, she and her father became the first father-daughter duo to be appointed Nieman Fellows at Harvard University.