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Mary Lou Fulton is a former journalist and foundation program director who now works from Los Angeles as an independent writer of stories and songs. Her song "Not Going Back" was named winner of the 2019 Songs for Social Change contest organized by the Renaissance Artists and Writers Association. Mary Lou has worked at the Associated Press, washingtonpost.com and at The Los Angeles Times, where she was the founding editor of a news edition created to improve community coverage of the central city following the 1992 civil unrest. In 2009, Mary Lou joined The California Endowment, where she initially led the foundation's media grant-making and later supervised statewide education and justice reform funding. A native of Yuma, Arizona, Mary Lou is a second-generation Mexican American who holds a journalism degree from Arizona State University and a master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
