Board of Directors
 Leezel Tanglao, National Advisory Representative Leezel Tanglao is an online news producer at CBS2/KCAL 9 News. Before becoming an online journalist, she was a multimedia/mobile journalist at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. Leezel has been an active member of AAJA since 2002. Leezel has volunteered at local AAJA events, national conventions and was a recipient of a chapter scholarship and stipend. She has held several media internships including Tokyopop, KCET-28 “Life and Times Tonight,” The Salt Lake Tribune, The Press-Enterprise and The Daily Breeze in Torrance. She is also a Chips Quinn scholar. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor’s degree in English and minor in Asian Pacific American Studies. She is currently pursuing a masters degree in Asian American Studies at UCLA. |
 Frank Buckley Frank Buckley is co-anchor of the KTLA Morning Show. Previously, he was a National Correspondent with CNN based in Los Angeles. He has also worked as a reporter at KCAL-TV, KESQ-TV in Palm Springs and as a weekend anchor at WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, NC. Buckley is the recipient of numerous awards including the Emmy and the Golden Mike. Buckley is a graduate of USC. His internships while at USC included CBS Network News, news writing at KNX and reporting for the Detroit News and the Los Angeles Times. Buckley, whose mother is Japanese, was a recipient of an AAJA scholarship. |
 Trang Ky Ho Trang Ho covers exchange traded and mutual funds for Investor’s Business Daily, where she’s worked since 2005. Before the newspaper, she worked at a public radio station in Southern California as a reporter and producer. She has also worked as a newscast producer in Palm Springs. She has a BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and an MA in Communications and Journalism from The Ohio State University, where she was a fellow in the Kiplinger Public Affairs Journalism Program. |
 Phil Ige Phil Ige is a videographer at KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles. His favorite mantra about his job: “Without us, it’s radio.” He takes a lot of pride in being a TV Photojournalist. He got his first experience covering news when he was 19 years old: While covering a story for his college TV news station, he came across a breaking news story involving bank robbers, cops with guns drawn, and thesuspect eventually giving up. He got everything on tape, and after that experience, he hasn’t looked back. Phil has worked at ABC (KERO) in Bakersfield, at the ABC affiliate in Santa Barbara, Norfolk, VA, at the NBC and WB affiliates in San Diego, and now he’s back home in L.A at KTLA. When he’s not on the job, he enjoys martial arts training, playing guitar, being a dork at karaoke joints, and enjoying some good wine. |
 Suzanne Joe Kai Suzanne Kai was among the first Asian American female news broadcasters to “break the glass ceiling” in San Francisco. She was a TV news reporter, documentary producer, and public affairs show host for KRON-TV (when it was NBC-SF), and also worked as a journalist on-camera for KTVU-TV Oakland, and KGO-TV (ABC-SF). She is currently producing two documentaries. Suzanne is the founder of StudioLA.TV, a production company which produces news & entertainment programming for wireless, online and television outlets. Suzanne is a member & 2007, 2008, 2009 judge with the Emmys Interactive Peer Group in Hollywood. She is the publisher and co-founder of AsianConnections. com. Suzanne earned a Masters degree in Communication from Stanford University. |
 Lora Victorio Lora Victorio is an online news producer at the Los Angeles Times. A graduate of Pepperdine University with a degree in journalism, Lora got her first taste of a newsroom while interning at KABC. She went on to ABC Network, where she was a newswriter and producer. Lora later worked at The Hollywood Reporter and City News Service before landing at The Times. |
| Subha Ravindhran Subha Ravindhran is a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor for KABC-TV in Los Angeles. She began her career in broadcast journalism after graduating from the University of Southern California. Her first job was in Amarillo, Texas where she was worked as a reporter, fill-in anchor and producer for KAMR, an NBC and Fox affiliate. After sweating it out in the Texas Panhandle, Subha decided to conquer another agricultural community when she moved to Fresno, California. For more than three years Subha worked as the South Valley Bureau Chief for KFSN-TV, KABC’s sister station. Over the years Subha has also been able to return to her native Bay Area several times as a freelance reporter for KGO, KABC’s other sister station in San Francisco. Subha joined the KABC Eyewitness New team in Los Angeles in 2006 and has since traveled all over Southern California covering wildfires, President Obama, the Academy Awards, and Michael Jackson. Subha currently lives in West Los Angeles with her husband. |
| Bryan Chu Bryan Chu is a reporter for NBA.com who covers the Los Angeles Lakers. His career has included stops at the San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union. He has also freelanced for ESPN the Magazine and The Associated Press. A sports reporter by trade, Chu has also been a cops and courts reporter. During his career, Chu has won numerous national and local awards for his work as a sports and criminal reporter. Most recently, he was recognized by AAJA at the 2009 Boston Convention for his news coverage of Asian American and Pacific Islander in “Counted Out,” a piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle. Chu graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations. He worked at the UCLA Daily Bruin all four years as a sports reporter and earned a scholarship from AAJA-LA and a spot in the Sports Journalism Institute where he interned at the Denver Post. He also interned at the Torrance Daily Breeze. Chu was also the Vice President for the AAJA Texas before moving back to Los Angeles. |
Advisory Board
| Ken Brusic is the editor of The Orange County Register and senior vice president for content, a role that has him responsible for all news and information produced in Orange County and the coordination of shared content among Freedom newspapers in OC, Colorado Springs and Mesa, Arizona. He is an early morning jogger, a motorcycle rider and a dad. He strong believes in the power of story to transform and to enlighten. Brusic also led the recent Vision 2005 process that began the Register’s shift from a newspaper publishing company to an information company. He champions diversity – in the voices and images reflected on the pages of the paper – along with pushing a Register technology initiative that strengthened computing in the newsroom, where staffers are assigned laptops and cell phones so they can be more mobile and accessible in the communities they cover. Before coming to California in 1989, Brusic worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Colorado, Kansas and Massachusetts. He has taught journalism at the University of Colorado, the University of Montana and spent a year on a journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan. |
| Henry Fuhrmann is senior copy chief, web, for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the Times in 1990, he has served as a copy editor and news editor on the Metro, Foreign and Calendar desks and as an assistant editor, copy desk chief and deputy section editor in Business. Fuhrmann assumed his current post in May 2007. He previously worked at Newsday, where he was a member of the first class of copy editors in Times Mirror’s Minority Editorial Training Program. Before entering the news business, Fuhrmann studied engineering at Caltech and UCLA and worked for many years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He holds two degrees in journalism: a bachelor’s from Cal State L.A. and a master’s from Columbia. Fuhrmann grew up in Ventura County; he and his two teenage daughters live in La Cañada Flintridge |
| Yet Lock is executive vice president of City News Service. Born in a small town in eastern Arkansas, he graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School of journalism. After settling in Southern California, he worked several years as a press secretary and executive assistant to the mayor of Los Angeles. He joined CNS more than 20 years ago. He has served on AAJA’s national board as well as numerous terms on the L.A. board. In the community, he has served as president of both the Los Angeles Chinatown Service Center and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. He’s also been a member of the board of directors of the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum/Ahmanson Theatres. |
| Michael Parks, University of Southern California. Michael Parks is a journalist and educator whose assignments have taken him around the globe, and whose “balanced and comprehensive” coverage of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa earned him the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. From 1997 to 2000, Parks served as editor of the Los Angeles Times, a period during which the Times garnered four additional Pulitzer Prizes. From his first overseas assignment covering the war in Vietnam as the Baltimore Sun’s Saigon correspondent, Parks has reported on major international news events from a variety of international capitals, including Beijing, Moscow, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, and Jerusalem. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1980 and in 1995 was promoted to deputy foreign editor and later managing editor, before taking the helm as editor in 1997. Parks has served the profession as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize, Gerald Loeb Awards, ASNE Writing Awards, and the Selden Ring Award. He has also served on the Western Selection Committee for the German Marshall Fund Fellowships and the South African Selection Committee for the Fulbright Fellowship. His memberships include the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Council on Foreign Relations, Pacific Council on International Policy, International Press Institute, Asia Society, and the Society of Professional Journalists. |
| Marian Shima is the public affairs director for the Los Angeles Times where she is responsible for community relations in greater Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley. In support of The Times’ focus on disadvantaged children and youth and the profession of journalism, she helped develop and launch two signature programs. One such program is “The Story Behind the Story”. This forum for student journalists features Times journalists sharing the behind-the-scenes challenges and dilemmas they face in covering the news. Her work has garnered her the “Employee Campaign Coordinator of the Year (2002)” by United Way of Greater Los Angeles but her community involvement doesn’t stop with The Times. She also serves on several non-profit boards and advisory councils for organizations like the Asia Society of Southern California, Asian Business Association, Asian Pacific Community Fund, and many others. Prior to joining The Times in December 1997, she held several marketing management positions at the Disneyland Resort and worked as an English-language copywriter and editor in Tokyo, Japan. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism. |
| Bill Sing is the co-founder and past national president of AAJA and currently serves as an advisory member for this chapter. He was largely responsible for leading AAJA from a regional group based in Los Angeles to a national organization offering scholarships, a national convention, job services, community programs and other activities. His work has garnered him a community service award from the UCLA Asian American Studies Department. Professionally, Bill is senior editor for special sections at the Los Angeles Times. Before that, Bill was the Times’ business editor, where he supervised a staff of 90 that won its first Pulitzer Prize and was recognized as a trend setter among daily newspaper business sections. His previous work at the Los Angeles Times includes deputy business editor, assistant business editor, business reporter and personal finance columnist. |
