Résumé
Journalism experience
Freelance writer and editor – write news and feature stories for ColorLines, Hyphen, Oakland Tribune, East Bay Express, Edutopia.org. Editor at Hyphen, an Asian American arts, politics and cultural magazine. March 2008-current
Oakland Tribune – covered Asian American issues and Chinatown as a staff writer; formerly an intern. July 2005-March 2008
Voices of Witness – Oral history books about human rights issues, an affiliate of McSweeney’s publishing. Worked on one book about the wrongfully incarcerated (Surviving Justice) and another on Hurricane Katrina (Voices from the Storm), serving as an intern and then advisor to the projects. June 2006-December 2006
San Francisco Bay Guardian – news intern, reporting with staff writers and writing own news, arts & entertainment and business stories. Continued as freelance writer. January 2005-May 2006
Asian American Dreams (Farrar Straus Giroux 2000) – research assistant to award-winning journalist Helen Zia. August 1999-January 2000
Daily Californian and hardboiled – contributor at the Daily Cal and writer and culture editor at hardboiled, an Asian/Pacific Islander student newsmagazine at the University of California at Berkeley. August 1996-May 2000
Other experience
High School English and Social Studies teacher, Cambridge Ridge and Latin High School (student teaching) and Oakland Technical High School. June 2001-June 2004
Education
MA in Education and teaching credential in English, Harvard Graduate School of Education. June 2001-June 2002
BA in English and Mass Communications, University of California at Berkeley. Highest distinction in Mass Communications. August 1996-May 2000
Awards
Ida B. Wells Journalist for Justice Award from the Center for Media Justice for coverage of police investigation of teen homicide. 2007
Cultural Affairs Reporting award, focusing on Asian American communities, 3rd place, East Bay Press Club Excellence in Print Journalism Awards 2006
Short Features award “The Quake Was Only the Beginning, 3rd place, East Bay Press Club Excellence in Print Journalism Awards 2006
National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS Award winner for “Locked Up Potential,” for a story about a formerly incarcerated foster youth who blossomed under a mentoring program. 2006
AAJA/Chicago Tribune Print & New Media Internship Grant 2005
Affiliations
references available upon request