Former Palo Alto mayor Judith Kleinberg ’71 has joined the Knight Foundation as its San Jose and Silicon Valley program director. The foundation seeks to “advance journalism in the digital age” and improve communities through programs such as grants to charities and projects nationwide, awards for digital journalism experiments, and journalism training programs. The chief executive of several award-winning non-profits, Kleinberg began her career as a lawyer and broadcast journalist. She was the first employee and served as vice president, chief operating officer, and general counsel for InSTEDD, which promotes using technology to respond to humanitarian disasters and diseases.