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 Frank O. Sotomayor, an award-winning editor, became IJJ Associate Director in December 2006 after having served as a Senior Fellow. He worked as a Los Angeles Times editor for 35 years, including 18 years as an assistant metro editor. He was co-editor and a writer on the Times series "Latinos in Southern California," which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He also was a member of staff teams that won Pulitzers in 1995 and 1998 for breaking news coverage. During his last few years at the Times, he was a hiring editor, assistant director of the Minority Editorial Training Program (METPRO) and editorial coordinator of the Student Journalism Program. From 2005 to spring 2007, he served as an adjunct faculty member at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. Early in his career, Sotomayor was a reporter and copy editor at the Arizona Daily Star, Philadelphia Inquirer and Pacific Stars and Stripes. He received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Arizona and a master's in communication from Stanford. He was a Nieman Fellow and studied at Harvard during the 1985-86 academic year. Sotomayor was a co-founder of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and the California Chicano News Media Assn. In 2002, he was named to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He co-edited the book “Frank del Olmo: Commentaries on His Times.”
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