Chapter Board
Judy Lin, President
Staff Writer, The Associated Press
jlin@ap.com
Judy Lin is a statehouse reporter with The Associated Press covering government finance. Prior to AP, she worked at The Sacramento Bee’s capital bureau. From 2004-2005 she was the city hall reporter at the Detroit News. Judy began her journalism career as an intern at AP, 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 and graduated from AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program in 2008. She was previously a member of the Philadelphia chapter and served as the vice president for print in Michigan.
Edward de la Fuente, Vice President-Print
Sports Copy Desk Chief, The Sacramento Bee
edelafuente@sacbee.com
Edward de la Fuente has been a sports copy editor at The Sacramento Bee since October 2006, and the sports copy desk chief since August 2008. Before coming to the Bee, he covered the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team for the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal and the University of Arizona football team for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in journalism in 1999.
When not writing or reading about sports, or following the USC football team, Edward can be found in the kitchen, playing the guitar or making up for his failed dreams of making the Major Leagues by playing for a local amateur baseball team.
Anny Hong, Vice President-Broadcast
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.
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.
Pamela Wu, Board Member
UC Davis Law School
Pamela Wu is currently with the UC Davis Law School’s communications department. Pamela was a previously a reporter/anchor at KCRA-3. Over the course of her 7-year career, she covered varied assignments, ranging from wildfire and floods to interviewing stars on the red carpet in Hollywood.
Prior to joining KCRA-3, Pamela served as anchor and reporter at stations across Northern California, including KVIQ-TV in Eureka, KION-TV in Salinas/Monterey, and KCRA-3’s sister station in Salinas/Monterey, KSBW-TV.
Pamela graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Rhetoric and Communication. She has been honored with an Emmy nomination and received the Unity Award for her work as the host of the cultural affairs program “KCRA-3 Common Ground.” She also volunteers extensively as emcee and moderator for numerous community and charity events throughout the Sacramento area.
Pam is proud to have been an AAJA member since her college days. In fact, a picture of Pam taken during a 1995 student workshop was featured in AAJA Sacramento’s 20th anniversary video; in it, she looks alarmingly young and optimistic.
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.
Jenn de la Fuente, Webmaster
Online Editor, The Sacramento Bee
Jenn de la Fuente is an online editor and producer at the Sacramento Bee. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a print journalism degree in 2000. She also works as a freelance graphic and web designer under the name Rosebud Designs, and can often been seen hanging around the Graphic Communications Lab at Sacramento City College, where she serves as a tutor.
In addition to doodling and dreaming up designs for all kinds of things, Jenn is a huge sports fan, cheering on her alma mater’s football team, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburgh Steelers. She also does knitting and crocheting and you’ll see her occasionally around town selling at craft fairs.