Judy Lin, Chapter Co-President
Reporter, The Sacramento Bee
jlin@sacbee.com

Judy Lin is currently a Capitol reporter with The Sacramento Bee. She covers the state Legislature, elections and laws impacting Californians. Prior to the assignment, she worked on the Bee's Metro desk. From 2004-2005 she was the city hall reporter at the Detroit News. Judy began her journalism career as an intern at the Associated Press, working in the San Diego, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh bureaus. She graduated from the University of Southern California with bachelor's degrees in journalism and history.

She has been a member of AAJA since college. She was a member of the Philadelphia chapter and served as the vice president for print in the Michigan chapter. She helped publicize an endowment dinner in Detroit raising awareness about the killing of Vincent Chin.

Suzanne Phan, Chapter Co-President
Reporter , KCRA3/ WB58
sphan@hearst.com

Suzanne Phan has been a General Assignment Reporter at KCRA 3 since 2000.
She started in the station’s Modesto bureau and then moved to the Sacramento newsroom in 2003.

Since 2005, Suzanne has been active with AAJA-Sacramento- first as Chapter Vice-President and then Co-President. Suzanne is a 2006 graduate of AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program and Camp AAJA.

She graduated from University of California, San Diego, with degrees in both Political Science and Communication, as well as a minor in Chinese Studies.

Before joining KCRA3 News... she reported for several years at KCOY-TV in San Luis Obispo/Santa Maria/Santa Barbara. Before that, Suzanne reported, produced, and worked as a fill-in anchor at CNN Local Headline News in Carlsbad; and she has worked as a news writer in San Diego for NBC 7/39.

Suzanne speaks Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese.

Sandy Louey, Secretary
Reporter, The Sacramento Bee
slouey@sacbee.com

Sandy Louey is a reporter at The Sacramento Bee. She has worked at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., The Hartford Courant, and The Dallas Morning News.

Sandy, who was chosen as Asian American Journalists Association's Chapter Member of the Year in 2002, has been active in AAJA since 1988. She received six Bay Area and national AAJA scholarships while she was earning a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

She is currently secretary of the Sacramento chapter, which is the fourth AAJA chapter she has been active in. Sandy was a student board member for the San Francisco Bay Area chapter, served four years on the AAJA national board, and was vice-president of the Texas chapter. She is also a veteran of AAJA national conventions, having attended all but two of them - the first convention in Los Angeles and the 1992 convention in Washington, D.C.

Sandy is a 1998 graduate of AAJA's Executive Leadership Program and was a reporter on the staff of AAJA's first student convention newspaper, The Daily AAJenda in 1990.

Susie Wong, Treasurer
Director - Special Media Projects, California Environmental Protection Agency
swong@calepa.ca.gov

Susie Y. Wong is the director of special media projects for the California Environmental Protection Agency. She has served as deputy director of external affairs for the state Department of Toxic Substances Control and communications director for the Department of Corporations since 2004. Previously, Wong was administrative and business enterprise appeals manager for the Department of Transportation from 2002 to 2004, strategic communications consultant for the State Office of the Inspector General from 2001 to 2003 and agency marketing manager for the California Trade and Commerce Agency from 2000 to 2002.

She has been a correspondent for the Sacramento Business Journal, investigative reporter for a financial research analyst firm, Off The Record Research, and television news reporter at KESQ in Palm Springs.

Since 2000, Wong has served as treasurer of AAJA Sacramento.

She is a member of the Organization of Chinese Americans and the Junior League of Sacramento.

Lonnie Wong, Board Member
Reporter, Fox40 KTXL-TV
lwong40@tribune.com

A Sacramento native and an active volunteer for numerous community organizations, Lonnie Wong brings a vast local perspective and nearly 30 years of reporting experience to Fox 40 News at 10.

Since 1980, Wong has worked in many capacities at KTXL-TV, currently as a general assignment reporter and host of the weekly public affairs program "Fox 40 In Focus."

His numerous community activities include founding board member and former president of the Sacramento Chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association, founding board member of the Chinese American Council of Sacramento, and current planning board member for the Pacific Rim Street Festival.

A graduate of U.C. Davis, he worked for campus station KDVS and moved on to work for various radio and television stations and networks as a technician, reporter, and field producer before going to KTXL-TV.

Ryan Yamamoto, Board Member
Sports Anchor and Reporter, News10

News10’s Sports Reporter and Anchor Ryan Yamamoto returned to Sacramento in November of 2005, after spending two years in San Diego as a Sports Anchor/Reporter.

Ryan’s journalism background comes from the News Department where he spent 9-years covering hard news. He began his career in Columbia, Missouri after graduating from San Francisco State. He went on to Pocatello, Idaho as a Weekend News Anchor, before landing in Sacramento in 1998.

Ryan is originally from the Bay Area. He has been a member of AAJA since 1992. For 2 years, he coordinated the “TV News Now” Student Project at the AAJA National Convention. He has mentored countless students.

Before Ryan started his broadcasting career more than a decade ago, he interned at AAJA's national office.

Anny Hong, Board Member
Anchor/Reporter/Weather Anchor
CBS13/ CW31

Anny Hong is an Anchor/Reporter/Weather Anchor at CBS 13/CW 31. She used to work at CBS 47 in Fresno.

Anny was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, home of the University of Oregon Ducks. While she did take courses at the U of O during her senior year of high school, Anny considers herself an Orangewoman after graduating from Syracuse University in Upstate New York.

Anny's first job was during her senior year in college. She was a one-man band reporter in Watertown, New York. This is where she shot, wrote and edited her pieces. Anny also worked in Syracuse as a reporter before making her way back home to Eugene, Oregon, where she was an anchor, reporter and even did weather! In fact, Anny is working on her meteorology degree to become a meteorologist.

In her spare time, Anny enjoys reading books, shopping on eBay and cooking Korean food.

Bobby Caina Calvan, National Advisory Board Member
Reporter, The Sacramento Bee

Bobby Caina Calvan is a general assignment reporter at The Sacramento Bee. He arrived at The Bee in January 2006 as a copy editor.

Prior to landing at The Bee, he spent three years covering Northern California as a freelance correspondent for the national desk of the Boston Globe. His love of travel and adventure temporarily swept him away from journalism in 1999, spending much of his time in the Philippines and reacquainting himself with his heritage.

He was born with a parachute on his back, and the winds have taken his career to newsrooms across the country, including the Virginian-Pilot, the Seattle Times, the Detroit Free Press, Contra Costa Newspapers and the Redding Record Searchlight.

His skills extend beyond storytelling, headline writing and the other crafts of journalism. He also knows how to debone a chicken, grill a leg of lamb and open a bottle of beer without the aid of modern tools. To his mother's pride and joy, he can cook perfect rice without the aid of measuring cups or a rice steamer.

At last count, he also knows how to offend people in at least a dozen languages – the list is growing – although he can take part in civilized conversation in a mere handful, namely Ilocano, Taglish, Spanish and, of course, American. Had he studied harder, there would be no need to pardon his French. While he can only read (some) Latin, he is fully conversant in pig latin, which he teaches to nephews and nieces.

Dan Nguyen, Webmaster
Reporter, The Sacramento Bee

Dan Nguyen is an online reporter at the Sacramento Bee. He graduated from Iowa State University with degrees in computer engineering and journalism.