Congratulations to our inaugural 2022 Jeannie Park Convention Grantees. The grant provides them a stipend to attend AAJA’s National Convention from July 27 – 30 in Los Angeles.
- Ilena Peng is pursuing a master’s in data journalism at Columbia Journalism School. She was an AAJA 2021 Voices fellow and has had articles published in Washington City Paper, Teen Vogue and Bloomberg.
- Anneliese Linder is an Associate Producer who is about to celebrate one year at News 12 Long Island. She graduated from the University of Florida where her bachelors in Telecommunication and joined AAJA to be part of the supportive community of AAPI journalists around the world working to increase representation in the newsroom.
- Chloe Tai is a political producer for the “Inside City Hall” program at Spectrum News NY1. She joined AAJA at Rutgers University to find a community of diverse journalists who could advise on accurately covering issues affecting minorities and share their newsroom experiences.
About Jeannie Park
Jeannie Park has been an advocate for diversity and racial equity throughout her 22 years as a journalist and now as a nonprofit leader. Her first journalism job was as a copy editor at the English-language Korea Herald in Seoul. Through connections made via the newly formed AAJA in LA, she managed to get an entry-level job at Time Inc., where she spent the next 22 years working at Time, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle and People. As executive editor of the latter two publications, she was one of the highest-ranking Asian Americans in magazines. In 1987, she became the founding president of the AAJA’s New York chapter; she co-chaired two national conventions and served as national secretary and as a long-time facilitator for the Executive Leadership Program. She is currently devoted full-time to non-profits and serves as a board member of the Korean American Community Foundation and the Donors of Color Network, leveraging philanthropy to build power for communities of color. She is a co-founder of the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard, advocating for racial equity in higher education. She can trace all these opportunities back to the friends, experiences and challenges provided to her by AAJA, for which she is eternally grateful.