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 Steve Montiel, the Director of USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism, is a veteran journalist and educator who began his career in 1967 at The Arizona Daily Star and worked for several news organizations during the ensuing years: The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and the Vietnam Bureau of Pacific Stars and Stripes. He also served as a spokesman for the 1984 Olympic Games, a foundation executive and political campaign press secretary. He is a co-founder of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education which has worked to increase racial and cultural diversity in the news since 1976. He was the institute's president and chief executive officer for 12 years, from Sept. 1988, to Sept. 2000. Montiel was a deputy press secretary for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee from 1982 through 1984 and the campaign press secretary for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley in his successful re-election race in 1985. He was part of the first staff of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, created with surplus funds from the 1984 Olympic Games. He was vice president for communications at the Amateur Athletic Foundation when he left to head the Oakland-based Maynard Institute. In addition to the Maynard Institute Board of Directors, Montiel serves on the boards of the California Council for the Humanities and the California First Amendment Coalition. He is a member of the California Chicano News Media Association, which he first joined in 1972. Montiel graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1969 and taught there as an assistant professor of journalism from 1979 to 1981.
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