Mary Lou Fulton, Program Manager, The California Endowment Mary Lou Fulton leads media grant-making at The California Endowment, the state’s largest health foundation. She moved to the foundation world in 2009 after a 20-year career in print journalism and digital media. Fulton started out as a print journalist, working as a reporter for the Associated Press and then as a reporter and editor at The Los Angeles Times. While in Los Angeles, she served as the founding editor of City Times, the community news section created to improve coverage of central Los Angeles after the 1992 riots. She moved to the online world in 1995, joining The Washington Post where she helped to launch washingtonpost.com and served as the site’s managing editor. Fulton went on to hold senior management positions at a number of digital media companies including AOL, GeoCities and HomePage.com before returning to the newspaper world in 2003 at The Bakersfield Californian. In Bakersfield, she created a new product development team that was nationally recognized for its participatory media initiatives, including the first “citizen journalism” publication to be started by a U.S. newspaper. A native of Yuma, Arizona, and a second-generation Mexican-American, Fulton holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

22/10/2009 - Angel Gurria, OECD Secretary-General, meets with Renato Brunetta (right), Minister for Public Administration and Innovation, Italy, during Brunetta's visit to address the OECD council. Ref: CD209-141-20 © OECD Photo/Benjamin Renout