ELECTIONS 2008 RESULTS
AAJA Texas President through 2010: Angie Joe
Angie Joe is an associate editor/analyst at McGraw-Hill Platts. Since joining nearly two years ago, she has been a price and news reporter for the volatile, petrochemical commodities market. Previously, Angie worked in public affairs. For about six years, she was a media specialist at the University of Houston, where she disseminated stories and news tips for the Bauer College of Business, economics, history and political science. In addition, she helped update the university's online newsroom and maintained the faculty experts' guide. Prior to UH, Angie was an account executive at global PR firm Weber Shandwick International where she serviced the HP, Compaq Computer Corp and Houston Space Center accounts.
AAJA's in-depth programming and networking opportunities enticed Angie to join the Texas chapter about 10 years ago. Since then, she's attended three national conferences, helped coordinate three state conferences, organized a media access day to teach community organizations about how to work with news organizations and was co-chair of the 2008 state conference in Houston last spring.
In addition, Angie attended Camp AAJA earlier this year to learn how she could help grow the chapter. Currently she is the Houston coordinator for Texas AAJA and serves on the Media Watch committee. In her spare time, Angie enjoys travel, cooking, eating, volunteering and playing with her 13-years-young puppy Sandy Joe.
AAJA Texas Vice President: Bryan Chu
Bryan Chu is an enterprise sports reporter at the San Antonio Express-News. Before coming to the Alamo City, Bryan has worked at the Torrance Daily Breeze, Denver Post, Albany Times-Union and the San Francisco Chronicle. His passion is covering sports but he also has a background in cops and courts.
A proud Sport Journalism Institute graduate and Hearst Fellow, Bryan decided to get involved with AAJA because of how much the organization has done for him in his career. No doubt being a newbie at UNITY this past summer really opened up his eyes that pushing for diversity is crucial. He hopes to help rekindle the AAJA Texas Chapter by reaching out to the younger generations still in school.
Bryan graduated from UCLA with a degree in political science. He intended to go into law, but he found a new passion after working at the student newspaper, UCLA Daily Bruin. Bryan was born and raised in San Dimas, Calif. He misses the Taiwanese food in SoCal and being around his older sister, Kathleen, and mom, Patty. In his spare time, Bryan is balling, golfing and lifting.
AAJA Texas Secretary: Aman Batheja
Aman Batheja is a political reporter with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas and a member of the South Asian Journalists Association. His work has previously been published in the Kansas City Star and New York Resident. In 2001, he had an essay published in 9/11 8:48 AM, the first book published on the September 11 attacks.
AAJA Texas Treasurer through 2010: Caroling Lee
Caroling has a varied background in media with experience in television development, Web design and photography. Most recently, she completed her Master's degree in Photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin. Previous to this degree, she worked for Discovery Networks International as a Program Evaluator, reviewing treatments and acquisitions for international programming schedules. Her web experience began in 1999 as an Associate Producer for Discovery Health Channel's converged television network. She continued as a Producer for the Creative Services arm of AppliedTheory, a Web company outside of Washington, DC. As the Producer, Caroling acts as client liaison for TradeMark Media projects and manages each project to meet deadlines, scope and budget. Caroling lives in East Austin with her pug, Rothko. She enjoys poker, snow boarding, politics, movies, cooking/food, eating crab, photography and travel.
Since 1981, the Asian American Journalists Association has sought to increase the number of Asian American journalists, provide a network of support for Asian-American journalists, encourage Asian students to enter the profession and work for fair and accurate coverage of Asian Pacific communities.
Our organization started with six people and has since grown to 1,900. Seventeen chapters stretch across the continental United States, Hawaii, and Asia.
For more information about what AAJA offers, please visit the AAJA National web site.
The Texas chapter of AAJA launched in Dallas in 1988 and has grown to include members across the state, from El Paso to Houston. Its first state convention in 1997 brought together more than 40 journalists and students. The chapter continues to hold an annual journalism conference and offers scholarships, professional stipends, mentoring, workshops, job listings, and many more benefits for students and working media professionals. The chapter's board and members meet quarterly.
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