Dawn Garcia, who is currently the deputy director of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists, is the new president of the Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS), a national organization of women journalists.
Garcia was a newspaper reporter and editor for 18 years before her appointment to the Stanford University job in 2000. She will serve as the organization’s first two-year president.
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