Roxann Stafford

Roxann Stafford was the the Managing Director of the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund from 2019-2022. The Fund is an independent joint venture formed by the Knight Foundation and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism designed to strengthen local journalism at scale, with a focus on journalistic excellence and serving the information needs of communities in the U.S. The Fund takes a mutual aid approach to journalism, and its overarching strategic framing was co-designed with a larger community of predominately journalists and publishers of color, investors, artists, researchers and technologists in journalism, media, and adjacent industries.