AALDEF Honors Dale Minami, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn and Sandra Leung with 2009 Justice in Action Awards March 26.

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) 35th Anniversary Celebration will be held at PIER SIXTY, Chelsea Piers, in New York City on Thursday, March 26, 2009.

Four special individuals will be presented with 2009 JUSTICE IN ACTION Awards:

New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-authors and human rights activists; Sandra Leung, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; and Dale Minami, civil rights attorney and co-founder of AALDEF.

ABC News Correspondent Juju Chang and Columbia Journalism Professor Sree Sreenivasan will emcee.

Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang and BD Wong will be special guests.

The Gala begins with a 6 p.m. cocktail reception followed by the JUSTICE IN ACTION Awards ceremony, a three-course dinner, and a silent auction.

Tables of ten, available at $35,000, $20,000, $15,000, and $10,000, include a VIP reception. Individual tickets start at $500.

RSVP Contact: Lillian Ling, 212.966.5932 x 202 or

SAN FRANCISCO -- Last December, Gov. Schwarzenegger tasked a 14-member commission to come up with new sources of revenue for the state that could put an end to the feast or famine revenue cycles seen in Sacramento. The Commission on the 21st Century Economy met on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley last week to hear testimony on one revenue option: a carbon tax.

New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen

March 23, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO -- Last December, Gov. Schwarzenegger tasked a 14-member commission to come up with new sources of revenue for the state that could put an end to the feast or famine revenue cycles seen in Sacramento.

Hurry - Apply for an AAJA Internship Grant before Friday April 24th!

The Asian American Journalists Association is doing a final push for students to apply for our internship grants this year. Please help us get the word out to your student members. Here's what we have:

1) Print and Online News Grants: Internship grants of up to $2,000 to students. Made possible by the Chicago Tribune Foundation and the William Woo Internship Fund.

2) Broadcast News Grants: Internship Grants of up to $2,500. Made possible by the scholarship fund of Lloyd LaCuesta and the late Sam Chu Lin. The Sam Chu Lin grant is open to males and females and the Lloyd LaCuesta grant will go to a male student.

3) Stanford Chen Internship Grants: Two grants of $3,000 each to college students who are interns at small to medium-size media.

The deadline for is Friday, April 24th. Apply here: http://www.aaja.org/programs/for_students/#journalisminternshipgrants

Regards,

Nao Vang
Student Programs Coordinator

Asian American Journalists Association
1182 Market Street, Suite 320
San Francisco, CA 94102
Telephone: 415-346-2051
Fax: 415-346-6343
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