Wanda Lloyd

Executive director, The Freedom Forum Institute for Newsroom Diversity

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Wanda Lloyd

Wanda Lloyd is the executive director of the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

Lloyd was formerly managing editor at The Greenville (S.C.) News. Before that, she was senior editor/days & administration at USA TODAY, where she served earlier as deputy managing editor/cover stories and managing editor/administration. She also worked at the Providence Evening Bulletin, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal and The Washington Post. Lloyd served for two years as a Pulitzer Prize juror.

Lloyd is a member of the American Press Institute's News Advisory Board and the board of directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), where she previously chaired the Diversity Committee. She serves as a member of the advisory board of the International Women's Media Foundation, the board of trustees of Spelman College and the Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC). Lloyd was a founder and past president of the National Association of Minority Media Executives (NAMME). She also previously served on the board of directors of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund.

Her honors include the Ida B. Wells Award for Media Diversity; Outstanding Business and Professional Award from Dollars and $ense magazine; Distinguished Alumna of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education; and Washington Spelman College Alumna of the Year.

Lloyd holds a bachelor's degree in English from Spelman College in Atlanta and an honorary doctorate of laws from Briarwood College in Southington, Conn. She was a fellow at the Management Training Center of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She and her husband, Willie, have a daughter.