Sharon Chan (AAJA Seattle) is joining the Seattle Times’ editorial page as associate opinions editor/digital. Chan is currently a senior producer for homepage and mobile platforms.  She spent 12 years as a Times reporter, most recently covering Microsoft for the business section. Chan is currently serving as vice president for UNITY Journalists, a nonprofit alliance that advocates diversity in the news, and she is a past national president of the Asian American Journalists Association.

Youkyung Lee (AAJA Asia) has recently made a career move, from Yonhap News Agency to the Associated Press as a business writer. Lee covered consumer technology, business and politics in South Korea and for overseas publications such as South Korea’s national news agency and the Los Angeles Times. An Asian Freeman Scholar, she graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in English and French studies.

To learn more about the Asian American Journalists Association, go to AAJA.org.

To submit your own Member News, send a 30- to 40-word write-up with biography and photo (subject to editing) to AAJA Professional Programs Coordinator Marcia Santillan at marcias@aaja.org.

The inaugural winners of the Dinah Eng Leadership Fellowship, which allows recipients to pursue professional training to help their journalism careers, are:

Jack Chang (AAJA Sacramento): He is the Associated Press’s Latin American desk editor. He is a native Californian who has worked extensively in Latin America. His hobbies involves running, learning Web design and exploring Mexico City. He aims to grow as a newsroom manager while he writes a book about Mexican history.
Ben Penserga (AAJA Washington, D.C.): He is the Business, Features and Go! Magazine Editor for the Daily Times (Salisbury, Md.) and a graduate student in the weekend interactive journalism program at the American University School of Communication.
Maria Sandoval (AAJA New York): She is a freelance video journalist who produces, shoots, edits and reports for television and the Web. Her work is available on NYPost.com, Brooklyn TV and EbruTV. She is chapter president of AAJA-New York.

To learn more about the Asian American Journalists Association, go to AAJA.org.

To submit your own Member News, send a 30- to 40-word write-up with biography and photo (subject to editing) to AAJA Professional Programs Coordinator Marcia Santillan at marcias@aaja.org.

Yul Kwon (AAJA Washington, D.C.) is the new host of LinkAsia, Link TV’s weekly TV news magazine and blog about Asian business, politics, culture, democracy and technology. Kwon has worked as a special correspondent for CNN, as a co-host on the Discovery Channel, and is also the host of a new PBS series, “America Revealed,” which will premiere in winter 2012.

Corky Lee (AAJA New York) is being featured in a film called “Photographic Justice:  The Corky Lee Story.” For over 35 years, he has used his camera to ensure that the faces of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and their experiences are included in American history. By documenting the civil rights struggle, he has retold these stories through a special lens. To learn more or to support the film’s production click here.

To learn more about the Asian American Journalists Association, go to AAJA.org.

To submit your own Member News, send a 30- to 40-word write-up with biography and photo (subject to editing) to AAJA Professional Programs Coordinator Marcia Santillan at marcias@aaja.org.

Congratulations to the following AAJA Advisory Board members who were elected March 23, 2012, to two-year terms on the AAJA Governing Board, the decision-making body of the 1,400-member organization.

• Yvonne Leow of AAJA-Arizona (representing Small chapters)
• Jocelyn “Joz” Wang of AAJA-Los Angeles (representing Medium chapters)
• Paul Cheung of AAJA-New York (representing Large chapters)
• Tomoko Hosaka of AAJA-San Francisco/Bay Area (at-large Governing Board rep)
• Thomas Huang of AAJA-Texas (at-large Governing Board rep)
• Ellen Lee of AAJA-San Francisco/Bay Area (at-large Governing Board rep)

These six Governing Board members join AAJA’s five national officers as a deliberative group. AAJA’s officers are President Doris Truong, Vice President for Broadcast George Kiriyama, Vice President for Print Thomas Lee, Secretary Theodore Kim and Treasurer Rene Astudillo.

To learn more about the Asian American Journalists Association, go to AAJA.org.

John de Dios is producing a documentary on big-cat conservation in southern Namibia, South Africa. He has worked on written, audio, video and photo stories for the last 10 years. De Dios is involved with diversity journalism organizations, mentoring for the UNITY 2008 convention in Chicago and again during UNITY 2012 in Las Vegas this year. De Dios is one of Josh Morgan’s journalism mentors.

Josh Morgan is cinematographer for a documentary on big-cat conservation in southern Namibia, South Africa. An award-winning photojournalist and videojournalist, he is an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, studying journalism and digital media.

For more information on their documentary, please click here. To help support this project, contact de Dios at johndediosua@gmail.com.

To learn more about the Asian American Journalists Association, go to AAJA.org.

To submit your own Member News, send a 30- to 40-word write-up (subject to editing) to AAJA Professional Programs Coordinator Marcia Santillan at marcias@aaja.org.

Charles Dharapak of the Associated Press won 2012 Still Photographer of the Year in the White House News Photographers Association’s “Eyes of History” contest. To see Dharapak’s work and that of other winners, click here.

Mei-Ling Hopgood is now an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her second book, “How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm,” was published in February.

Yuki Kokubo is launching a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary about her parents in Japan. For more information, click here.

Chris Soriano created a video for CNN iReport that was shown on HLN’s “Showbiz Tonight.”  Watch a clip here.

Thuy Vu’s work “Vietnam Revisited” has been included in a high school curriculum unit to teach news and creative writing.

To learn more about the Asian American Journalists Association, go to AAJA.org.

To submit your own Member News, send a 30- to 40-word write-up (subject to editing) to AAJA Professional Programs Coordinator Marcia Santillan at marcias@aaja.org.