Scholarships - AAJA-SF
Scholarships
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Scholarship winner Alana Dong chats with AAJA SF board member Ellen Lee at the chapter's 2008 East West Eats culinary benefit.
AAJA SF gives thousands of dollars in scholarships each year to outstanding high school seniors and college students who live in or attend school in the Bay Area. Students are selected based on their strong journalistic ability, commitment to journalism, sensitivity to Asian Pacific American issues, financial need and scholastic achievement.
THE 2008 SCHOLARSHIPS:
The chapter distributed $8,000 in scholarships in 2008. We are proud to announce our scholarship recipients:
SONIA NARANG – Sonia received the chapter’s highest honor, the Ken Wong Memorial Scholarship, for her work in multimedia and print. She graduated from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in May and worked as a business reporting intern at the San Jose Mercury News this past summer. This fall, she is starting her job as a television news associate at NBC in New York City. Her award is $3,500.
ALANA GOMEZ DONG – Alana received the $1,500 Willie Kee Memorial Scholarship for demonstrating promise in broadcast or photojournalism. Alana recently graduated from Stanford University, where she helped create a school television news program from scratch. She writes for NBC11 in San Jose and also has completed multimedia projects for the station.
MARNETTE FEDERIS – Marnette, a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, won a $1,500 award. She spent the summer working at the Thomson Reuters Philippines bureau and will return in the fall to finish her masters degree with an emphasis on multimedia. Prior to graduate school, she wrote for Roll Call, a political reporting site.
GERRY SHIH – Gerry was awarded $1,500. He spent the summer working with the Associated Press in Asia. He returns this fall to finish his senior year at Stanford University, where he is majoring in economics. He took a year off from school last year to work at the Cox Washington D.C. news bureau.
A special thanks to our scholarship judges: Jon Kawamoto, editor of the Piedmonter and Montclarion for Contra Costa Newspapers; Laura Oda, chief photographer at the Oakland Tribune; Harry Mok, online producer at Bay Area News Group-East Bay and Editor-in-Chief of Hyphen Magazine; and Randall Yip, a senior producer at KGO-TV/ABC7 News.
We also would like to thank KGO for hosting the judging panel for the second year in a row and San Jose Mercury News designer Janet Kim for updating our annual scholarship application.
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