Officers

S. Lynne Walker

President and Executive Director

S. Lynne Walker is a Pulitzer Prize finalist whose reporting has taken her to Mexico, where she lived for almost 16 years and reported on political, economic, legal and social issues affecting U.S.-Mexico relations. Walker began her journalism career at the age of 18 when she got her first newspaper…

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Walter Baranger

Vice President

Walter Baranger, former senior editor of news operations at The New York Times, joined InquireFirst as vice president in August 2017. Baranger has a deep understanding of the challenges facing journalists in Latin America and around the world. During his 27-year tenure at The Times, he logged more than 3…

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Nancy Wyld

Secretary

Nancy Wyld, a founding member of InquireFirst, spent 17 years at The San Diego Union-Tribune where she was operations manager for the 400-person newsroom and handled budgets, contract negotiations and vendor relations. She also oversaw newsroom technology and was facilities manager for the Union-Tribune’s news bureaus. Prior to arriving in…

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Nora Livesay

Treasurer

Nora Livesay was the Director of Finance at the nonprofit Institute of the Americas on the University of California, San Diego, campus from May 1998 until her retirement in March 2022. A native of Tennessee, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from Radford University in Radford, Virginia, with a Bachelor of…

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