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Investigative journalist Deborah Nelson has been elected president of the Dart Center Executive Committee. She succeeds Joe Hight, managing editor of the Daily Oklahoman, who served as the Executive Committee's first president.
 Nelson is director of the Carnegie Seminar at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She joined Maryland in 2006, after five years as Washington investigative editor for the Los Angeles Times. She has reported for The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times and The Seattle Times, where she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997. She is on the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and is a past president of Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Nelson joins a slate of officers including vice president Beth Frerking, senior editor of Politico.com; secretary Seamus Kelters, senior producer for BBC Northern Ireland and co-author of Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles; and chair emeritus Frank Ochberg, M.D. Outgoing president Joe Hight was honored by the Dart Foundation with the establishment of a scholarship in his name the University of Central Oklahoma, his alma mater.
The executive committee guides the Dart Center's mission through policy formation and program evaluation and includes leading journalists, mental health professionals and educators. Click here for more information about the executive committee.
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