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Broadcast Pioneers (continued) Suzanne Joe (Kai)
On those live television shows the Mills College graduate interviewed Bill Marumoto, the first Asian American on the White House staff, and Bobby Seale of the Black Panther Party. In 1971, she moved to KRON-TV (NBC) full-time covering such stories as the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford and the Patty Hearst kidnapping. She has two Emmy nominations for her Chinese American reports. One of the youngest reporters in the nation, she began her media career at the age of 18. She was co-manager of her Mills College radio station with old submarine parts donated by students at nearby Stanford. She produced, wrote and broadcast more than 5,000 television stories by the time she was 25 years old, also earning a Masters Degree in Communication from Stanford during this same time period. By the end of the decade, Suzanne had met her first husband and moved to Arizona where she was a Governor's appointee to the state's Motion Picture and Television Board and co-founded the National Bank of Arizona, now merged with a Nasdaq-listed banking group. Suzanne is founder of CSI International, a Pacific Rim equity firm based in Newport Beach and San Francisco, as well as the Internet venture, AsianConnections.com. One of her last venture projects before returning back to her media roots, was arranging a joint venture and financing a $100 million dollar high rise in Beijing. Suzanne's mission for AsianConnections.com is to utilize the power of the Internet and the "human power" of all of our knowledge, connections and relationships developed over the years in Asia and the U.S. to help others to fulfill their personal and professional dreams. Click here for more about AsianConnections.com
Joann Lee, Ph.D.
Joann earned her Ph.D. in Media Ecology form New York University, her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and her B.A. in English at the City College of New York. She taught as Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and in 1991, she established the Journalism Program at Queens College whish she currently directs. Her 1992 book was selected as "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States. Joann's upcoming book entitled Asian American Actors will be published by McFarland in the year 2000.
Vic Lee
Vic's work has earned him local and national recognition, including numerous Emmys and awards for Best Investigative Reporter, Best Live Coverage, Best Enterprise Award, and Best Spot News Award, and the prestigious George Polk Award of Journalism for Best Local TV Reporting. For his documentary, Airlift Africa and the Faces of Hunger, he received the CINE Gold Eagle Award, New York Film Festival Gold Award, Best Documentary, and Best Mini-Series Award. Recently in 1999, Vic was presented with a National Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Award at the Unity Conference and was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences into their Silver Circle.
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