Vice President's Biography

S. Lynne Walker is Vice President of the Institute of the Americas.  She coordinates Institute media training activities and is the Institute’s press liaison.  She is also the Director of the Institute’s China-Latin America program.  Before joining the Institute in 2008, Walker served as the Copley News Service bureau chief in Mexico City for 15 years, covering the political, economic and social shifts that led to Mexico’s transition to democracy.

Walker is best known for her series of reports entitled, “Beardstown: Reflections of a Changing America.” That series, which reported on Mexican immigrants and their impact on and integration into a town in the Midwest, earned several national journalism awards and was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.