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D
oris Truong
Universal News Desk
The Washington Post
Doris Truong works at The Washington Post as a multiplatform editor on the Universal News Desk. She focuses on editing stories for the Web and the newspaper, as well as publishing blog posts and writing captions for online photo galleries. She has been The Post’s deputy Metro copy chief for the Extras, shepherding a staff producing 13 weekly suburban sections, and she was in the National and Style departments as a copy editor/slot. She helped edit The Post’s 2010 “Top Secret America” project and worked on the Jack Abramoff investigative reporting package that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. Before coming to The Post in 2003, she was a copy editor/slot on the universal desk of the Dallas Morning News. She is the 2011-12 national president of the Asian American Journalists Association and is an active member of the American Copy Editors Society. She is a Maynard Media Academy alumna, a former fellow of the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, and a graduate of AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program. She has been a faculty member at the Poynter Institute and has presented sessions during multiple journalism conventions. She is on the Board of Directors for UNITY: Journalists of Color.
Doris is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and a native of Western Colorado. Away from the office, she’s likely to be planning her next road trip (fewer than 10 U.S. states left to visit!), testing a recipe in the kitchen, playing board games or looking for people to accompany her on a karaoke outing.
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David Steinberg
UNITY Treasurer
Copy Desk Chief
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco, CA
David A. Steinberg is copy desk chief at The San Francisco Chronicle, where he has worked since 1996. He also serves as editor of The Chronicle Stylebook and chairs the paper’s Style Council, which sets the newspaper’s usage guidelines.
He worked previously as a copy editor at the Boston Herald and the BPI Entertainment News Wire in Boston.
In 2010, he was elected to a second two-year term as president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association during the association’s 20th anniversary conference in San Francisco. He was first elected to NLGJA’s national board in 2001 and served as NLGJA treasurer from 2004 through 2008.
Steinberg lives in his hometown of Oakland, Calif., with his husband, Gregory Foley.
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Mekahlo Medina is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who currently serves as NBC4’s social media, technology and neighborhood reporter.
Medina is one of the station’s most prolific social networkers, utilizing the technology to develop content for the station’s daily newscasts. Medina can most often be seen on the station’s popular early-morning newscast “Today in LA” and the “NBC4 News at Noon.”
In addition to reporting, Mekahlo has developed two signature franchise segments: “The Trend,” a segment that highlights what’s trending on social media networks, airs daily on both the early morning and noon newscasts. “The Local,” a weekly feature about the interesting people, places and trends in local Southern California communities airs on both “Today in LA” and “The Channel 4 News” at 5PM.
Medina joined the station in 2006 as anchor and manager of NBC4’s avant-garde digital news service, “News Raw,” which focused on hyper-local coverage of neighborhoods, culture, technology and social networks. The service aired on NBC4’s digital channel 4.2.
Prior to joining NBC4, Medina was a general assignment reporter for KSTP-TV (ABC) in Minneapolis, KPNX-TV in Phoenix, KOB-TV (NBC) in Albuquerque, and KTSM (NBC) in El Paso.
A graduate of New Mexico State University, Medina holds a degree in Broadcast Journalism.
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Paul Cheung is AP’s Global Interactive Editor for its New York City headquarters. The interactive editor manages a global team of visual journalists who produce multimedia and information graphics for all formats, including print, online and mobile.
Cheung also teaches a visual narrative class at Columbia Journalism school and is the editorial advisor for Newspanion, a start up looking into fixing the online commenting system.
Prior to joining the AP, Cheung was The Miami Herald’s Deputy Multimedia Presentation Editor. In 2009, he managed MiamiHerald.com site redesign in 2009 and was responsible for the conceptualization, creative direction and visual look of MiamiHerald.com. He was The Miami Herald’s graphics editor from 2004 to mid-2007.
Prior to joining the Miami Herald, Cheung was a Senior Graphics Editor at The Wall Street Journal. During his eight-year tenure at WSJ, he produced graphics for WSJ’s front page one, Marketplace and National sections, helped launch the Personal Journal section and assisted with the 2002 redesign of paper.
Cheung served on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). He was the National AAJA convention co-chair in Miami 2007 and programming chair for the past three years. He is the programming chair for the UNITY 2012 convention.
He co-developed the AAJA Executive Leadership Program demonstration project in New York City. A hyperlocal news blog focused on Chinatownhttp://www.OurChinatown.org/).
Cheung, a 2007 Newspaper Association of America Breakthrough fellow, graduated from New York University where he studied journalism, sociology, science and photography
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Janet H. Cho, AAJA’s National Vice President for Print, is a business reporter for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. Her beats include retail, marketing/advertising/branding and about 20 local companies. Prior to joining The Plain Dealer, she worked at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; the Times-Union and Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y. and at USA Today.
Cho is a graduate of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program.
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Sharon Chan
City Hall Reporter
The Seattle Times
Seattle, Wash.
Sharon Chan is city hall reporter for The Seattle Times. She has covered the mayor, city counsel, Fortune 500 companies, Christina Aguilera, Medicare fraud as the University of Washington and accounting tricks at the regions largest Internet firm.
Ms. Chan focuses on political coverage that holds elected officials accountable and safeguards the public’s money. She has worked on police accountability stories that led to changes in Seattle’s system of civilian oversight. During the last local election, she broke news that a political candidate had been arrested for driving while intoxicated.
At The Seattle Times, she has worked as a business reporter, education reporter, assistant features editor, weekend metro editor and with the investigative team. Previously, she served as managing editor for Orange Coast magazine.
Ms. Chan joined the UNITY board in 2009. She has previously served on the national governing board for the Asian American Journalists Association.
She graduated from Pomona College and is a frequent speaker for the Investigative Editors and Reporters.
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Rhonda LeValdo-Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and enrolled tribal member of Haaku or as it was named by the Spanish “Acoma Pueblo” and its more common name by tourists “Skycity”. Haaku is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the U.S. with no running water or electricity. Growing up in this environment has made Ms. LeValdo value everything and see what has been done to the land from a unique perspective.
LeValdo graduated from Haskell Indian Nations University with an A.A. degree and transferred to the University of Kansas where she received her bachelor’s degree from the William Allen White School of Journalism. In 2009 LeValdo also received her Masters of Science in Journalism and Mass Communication. While at KU she served as an anchor and reporter for KUJH, and a radio host for KJHK. Currently she has her own radio show in Kansas City called Native Spirit Radio on KKFI 90.1FM.
LeValdo was elected to the Native American Journalist Association’s (NAJA) Board of Directors in 2007. In 2008 and 2009 LeValdo was elected Vice President of NAJA. In 2010 LeValdo was elected President of NAJA.
In addition to her board duties, she teaches Video Production in the Media Communications department at Haskell. As an instructor and a past staff member, she is actively involved with the Haskell students and sponsor three clubs: The Haskell Intertribal Cultural Club, the Stories ‘N Motion Film Club, and the Friends in Need Club. She also serves as the advisor for the Haskell “Indian Leader” student newspaper.
LeValdo has completed one documentary, “The Kickapoo Cultural Experience: The Kickapoo of Kansas”. The film won the Kanza Film Festival Documentary Film category, and was shown on PBS-Topeka affiliate in the summer of 2007. In addition the film was selected for the 30th annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco and continues to travel the film festival circuit.
LeValdo was also named one of 23 KU Women of Distinction for 2009-2010. The honor was bestowed on her based on her work at Haskell, NAJA, a National Minority Consortia $10,000 fellowship (where she produced 3 video segments for PBS Online Newshour), and a recent competition where she was selected as one ten semi-finalists for an international Youtube/Pulitzer Center “Project Report” video competition. The contest garnered Ms. LeValdo much attention throughout the United States, as well as a guest spot on the C-SPAN show “Close Up at the Newseum” where they showed a news story she did on the Federal Government’s obligations to American Indian students particularly at Haskell Indian Nations University.
LeValdo also currently writes for News from Indian Country newspaper when she can. Recently, LeValdo won an NAJA media award for a story she wrote on the Haskell Indian Nations University Men’s Cross Country team, 1st Place Sports writing and two others for video segments for Online Newshour and Reznet.
Rhonda LeValdo is married to Denny Gayton, they have two children: Hepanna and Winona Gayton and they all reside in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee) is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate, who has helped Native Peoples recover more than one million acres of land and numerous sacred places. She has developed key federal Indian law since 1975, including the most important national policy advances in the modern era for the protection of Native American cultures and arts, including the 1996 Executive Order on Indian Sacred Sites, the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the 1989 National Museum of the American Indian Act, and the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act.
Harjo is president and executive director of The Morning Star Institute, a national Native rights organization founded in 1984 for Native Peoples’ traditional and cultural advocacy, arts promotion, and research. A leader in cultural property protection and stereotype busting, Morning Star sponsors the Just Good Sports project, organizes the National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places, and coordinated The 1992 Alliance (1990-1993). Harjo is one of seven prominent Native people who filed Harjo et al v. Pro Football, Inc., regarding the name of the Washington football team, before the US Patent & Trademark Board in 1992. They won in 1999, when a three-judge panel unanimously decided to cancel federal protections for the team’s name because it “may disparage Native Americans and may bring them into contempt or disrepute.” The District Court reversed their victory in 2003 and the case is now before the US Court of Appeals. Harjo’s essay, “Fighting Name-Calling: Challenging ‘Redskins’ in Court,” is published in Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy (University of Nebraska Press, 2001). She also wrote “Just Good Sports: The Impact of ‘Native’ References in Sports on Native Youth and What Some Decolonizers Have Done About It,” a chapter in For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook (SAR Press, 2005).
An award-winning columnist for Indian Country Today (2000-2006), she wrote the foreword “Camp Criers Speaking Across the Generations” and eleven columns featured in America Is Indian Country: Opinions and Perspectives from Indian Country Today (Fulcrum Publishing, 2005). Founding co-chair of The Howard Simons Fund for American Indian Journalists, she was news director of the American Indian Press Association and drama and literature director and “Seeing Red” producer for WBAI-FM Radio in New York City. A keynoter for the 2000 Journalism & Women Symposium, she was a 1998-99 Brain Trust Member for UNITY Journalists of Color and an organizer/presenter for UNITY ’04 in DC, ’99 in Seattle, and ’94 in Atlanta. Her essay “Redskins, Savages and Other Indian Enemies: An Historical Overview of American Media Coverage of Native Peoples” is in Images of Color: Images of Crime (2005).
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Tara Gatewood (Isleta Pueblo & Navajo) joined the Native airwaves in 2005 with Koahnic Broadcast Corporation’s Native America Calling close to New Mexico’s Pueblo of Isleta where she is from.
For 20 years she has worked in Indian Country in the arenas of health and community development. She has more than 19 years of experience as a journalist. Beyond radio broadcasting, her palette of experience also includes working in Washington, D.C., South Dakota, Minnesota, Massachusetts and New Mexico. She was a reporter and photographer for several major news organizations. Her past works can be found in the Boston Globe, Aberdeen American News, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Transmission Magazine, Albuquerque The Magazine and Native Peoples.
She currently sits on the board of UNITY: Journalists for Diversity and has received awards from the Native American Journalist Association for her work.
Before stepping on board at Native America Calling, Tara also specialized in print, photo and video marketing as well as, as a public relations consultant for several Native American organizations and Native American artists. She has also worked on video documentaries and in music production. Tara is a visual artist and has participated in her family’s legacy of Native American jewelry fabrication.
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Margaret Holt
NAJA
Standards Editor, Chicago Tribune
Chicago, IL
Margaret Holt is standards editor at the Chicago Tribune, working closely with reporters and editors about issues of accuracy, fairness and ethics. She has a particular interest in urban issues and diversity of coverage and regularly meets with community leaders and groups to discuss coverage. Also, Holt has a background in training and staff development; she is a past chair of the Mid-America Press Institute and represents the Tribune on the MPI board. Additionally, she works with colleagues at other Tribune Co. newsrooms on the company’s editorial ethics code and practices.
A graduate of the University of Missouri, Holt has held a variety of reporting and editing jobs. She joined the Tribune Co. in 1987 when she became business editor of the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. In 1993, she joined the Chicago Tribune as sports editor and, in 1995, began working on customer and accuracy matters for the newsroom. She is a frequent speaker at media workshops and conferences on accuracy and credibility. A member of the Native American Journalists Association, Holt represented NAJA in planning for the 2008 UNITY convention in Chicago, serving as co-chair of programming.
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Jen Christensen
NLGJA President
Investigative Producer & Documentarian
CNN
Atlanta, GA
Jen Christensen is a Peabody-award winning producer for CNN Special Investigations & Documentary Unit. In that role, Christensen has produced a variety of in-depth investigative stories and compelling long-form documentaries for CNN Presents, the most honored documentary series in cable news. She is based at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters.
Christensen served as a producer for the Peabody and DuPont award-winning CNN Presents: God’s Jewish Warriors; and the award-winning documentaries about Martin Luther King Jr., Words That Changed a Nation; Black in America: Eyewitness to Murder; and Obama Revealed; Sarah Palin Revealed; and Christiane Amanpour’s Generation Islam. She also produces regular investigative pieces for CNN’s primetime programs. And has been a regular freelance reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Professional Photographer’s Association Magazine, the Advocate, Pain Solutions, and Sirius OutQ News.
Previously, Christensen ran the investigative unit for WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., and started the investigative unit at WTVQ in Lexington, Ky. where she also worked as a line producer. While still in college, she started her broadcast career at WXIN in Indianapolis running the assignment desk and as a line and field producer.
Prior to her broadcast journalism career, Christensen worked in London on nuclear non-proliferation issues for NATO’s Atlantic Council and worked re-drawing voter redistricting maps at the Chicago Board of Elections. She is listed as a co-author for two books: Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993: a Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1993) and Women Confronting Retirement – A Nontraditional Guide (Rutgers Press, 2003).
Christensen severs on several non-profit boards. She is the Vice President for Broadcasting with the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association, a KEYS core team member at Turner Broadcasting, and the Secretary for GirlsRockCampATL.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from Butler University in TV/radio and political science with a gender studies minor and also attended the London School of Economics where she studied foreign policy and economics.
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Sarah Blazucki
NLGJA Vice President
Print, Digital Writer-Editor
The Peace Corps & the Resume Place
Washington, DC
Sarah Blazucki is the vice president for print and digital media for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. She is the former editor of Philadelphia Gay News, the oldest LGBT newsweekly in the country. During her tenure from 2006-12, PGN reported on LGBT homelessness and domestic violence, produced an annual Gay History Month series and interviewed presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Under Sarah’s direction, the staff won more than 35 awards for news writing, arts and entertainment, columns, photos and advertising. Sarah was co-chair of the NLGJA 2011 annual convention in Philadelphia and was on the programming committee for 2012 UNITY Journalists Convention, a quadrennial conference of minority journalist organizations.
In 2012, she led the development of a website to find LGBT rights (lgbtrights.me) by address or GPS locator on a smartphone.
In addition, Sarah is a freelance résumé writer and career coach and has served as a contributor, editor and proofreader for several résumé writing books. Prior to that, Sarah served as news editor for the LGBT biweekly The Baltimore Alternative. She received her B.A. from Towson State University in mass communications, with a concentration in journalism and a minor in women’s studies. In her free time, Sarah runs, bikes, and practices yoga. She now lives in D.C. and is an editor for The Peace Corps.
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Sharif Durhams
Reporter
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee, WI
Sharif Durhams is the Journal Sentinel’s social media editor and a digital strategist, working with reporters and editors to restructure their beats and departments to focus them on interaction with readers and preparation for digital platforms. Durhams oversees the Journal Sentinel newsroom’s social media accounts. In this position, he oversaw social media coverage of shootings at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. in 2012. He also oversaw the social media coverage by more than 30 reporters for the Journal Sentinel’s 2012 Election Day coverage.
Durhams was one of the initial reporters on the Journal Sentinel’s breaking news desk when it was created in 2008. In that job, he created the Journal Sentinel’s main news Twitter account and was the Journal Sentinel’s first news reporter to use social media extensively in covering breaking news stories. He has overseen news coverage on the desk and is regularly consulted on news breaking news decisions.
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Hugo Balta
NAHJ President
Coordinating Producer
Studio Production
West Hartford, CT
Hugo Balta is an experienced Broadcasting and Digital Media Professional who has directed growth, change and innovation in several markets, divisions and business cycles for both English and Spanish language markets.
Mr. Balta is committed to advancing the welfare of the Latino community. He is the President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Balta leads the board of directors in the strategic planning of programs focused on the advancement of Latino journalists, associate members and mentoring students. He previously held the positions of Vice President of Broadcasting, Regional Director and Chapter President at NAHJ.
Mr. Balta is currently a Coordinating Producer at ESPN, responsible for the content and on-air look of studio and event related programs; driving creativity, accuracy, storytelling and entertainment of sports news shows. He is also a member of ESPN’s Hispanic Initiative Leadership team; a committee of ESPN leaders that champions diversity strategies within the company.
Previously, Mr. Balta was the Managing Editor for CBS 2 News serving the NYC metropolitan area. He lead the Assignments and Reporting teams in producing content for daily newscasts. As part of the News Management team, he is credited with CBS 2 News at 11PM’s first major sweeps victory in nearly 20 years (February 2011).
Balta is the Founder of the Picaflor Media Group, LLC. PMG is a full service production, marketing and consulting company specializing in broadcast and new media. PMG represents more than 50 creative and technical professionals. PMG assists in the production of Telemundo’s “Persiguiendo Injusticias, a weekly national program that profiles crime cold cases.
As Vice President of News for NBC Universal’s Spanish language television station Telemundo 47, Balta turned a traditional broadcast news operation into a multiple platform content center that produces news, entertainment, specials and commercial productions for major markets in the U.S. and Central and South America.
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Maria Burns Ortiz is the social media columnist for ESPN.com and writes a weekly sports column for Fox News Latino.
She began her career as an editorial assistant at Sports Illustrated, spent two years as a sports reporter at The (Fort Wayne, Indiana) News-Sentinel, was a regular stringer for the Associated Press and has produced freelance content for numerous media outlets.
She covered soccer for ESPNSoccernet from 2006 through 2010 and has been a contributor to ESPN.com’s Page 2 since 2009. In March 2011, she was named the social media columnist for ESPN.com.
Since October 2010, she has been a contributor to Fox News Latino. That role was expanded in January 2011, and she now writes a weekly column for the site.
She was the Region 2 director on the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Board of Directors from July 2009 to June 2011. A lifetime member of NAHJ, She is currently the Sports Task Force chair. She was appointed to the UNITY: Journalists for Diversity national board of directors in January 2013. She is also on the Community Advisory Board for WGBH and an Online News Association member.
Additionally, she is an adjunct professor in the Journalism Department at Emerson College. She has twice been a guest lecturer at Tufts University, where she taught a course on digital sports journalism.
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Yvonne Latty
New York University
Director, Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation
Yvonne Latty is the Director of the Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation in Multimedia programs at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Institute. She is the producer and director of “Sacred Poison” an award-winning documentary on the effects of uranium contamination in Navajo Nation.
Latty is the author of In “Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss and the Fight to Stay Alive” and “We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq.” In Conflict was turned into a theater piece that premiered at Temple University, was awarded The Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and had an Off Broadway run.
She worked for the Philadelphia Daily News for 13 years where she was an award winning reporter specializing in urban issues. Her work has appeared in USA Today, Chicago Sun Times, BET.com, The Washington Post and numerous other media outlets. She has been featured in over 100 media outlets including, Newsweek, CNN, The New York Times, CNN International, Fox News, NPR, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free CNNInternational, Fox News, NPR, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press.
Born and raised in New York City, she earned a BFA in Film/Television and later an MA in Journalism from New York University.
Her nonfiction short stories have been published in several anthologies, the most recent, “Maggie” a short story on friendship in the midst of childhood racism, will be published in “Nothing but the Truth” this fall. Latty is a Dart Fellow for Journalism and Trauma, a Leeway Foundation Fellow and was awarded a Barry Bingham Fellowship for her work in academic diversity. She has lectured nationally.
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Walt Swanston
A diversity professional with more than 25 years of experience in diversity-focused work in media companies, and a print and broadcast journalist with more than 20 years of experience, Swanston served as the executive director of UNITY: Journalists of Color and spearheaded the fundraising and operational activities of the UNITY ’94 and UNITY ’99 conventions, the first two joint conventions of the Black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic journalism associations.
She also has served as executive director of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), and has directed diversity programs at the Newspaper Association of America Foundation. She also worked as a diversity consultant, designing and delivering training programs for Knight-Ridder Inc., Gannett Company Inc. and dozens of other newspapers and media companies throughout the country.
Swanston also was Director of Diversity Management for National Public Radio (NPR) from 2003 to 2009. Most recently, Swanston was interim Director of Diversity for the American Society of News Editors, where she developed two, two-day sessions, entitled “Leadership in Diversity: New Models for Growing Audience, Talent and Revenue.”
Swanston is a winner of the NABJ Ida B. Wells Award for promoting diversity in the media industry; the Honor Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri; a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; a Lifetime Achievement Award form San Francisco State University School of Journalism; the Robert P. Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Outstanding Service to Scholastic Journalism Award from the Journalism Education Association.
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Kathy Chow
Executive Director
Asian American Journalists Association
San Francisco, CA
Kathy also worked for six years as a public affairs representative for The Sacramento Bee where she was in charge of their employee volunteer program, managing charitable contribution, special projects, and the development of client relations with businesses such as the Asian, Hispanic, Black and Metro Chambers. Kathy has also consulted with companies such as VSP and lead workshops on multicultural marketing. Kathy is certified by the Newspaper Association of America as a Diversity Facilitator, and has served on the advisory council for the National Corporate Volunteer Council and the National Hands On Schools Council for Hands On Network & Points of Light Institute.
Kathy has over ten years of experience in program development and nonprofit management with various non-profit agencies. Prior to coming to AAJA, Kathy was the Director for Hands On Sacramento, a volunteer action center that provided volunteer opportunities in three counties.
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Pam has an impressive background, with more than 20 years of experience of working with a wide variety of community-driven projects and membership organizations.
She served as the CEO of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society in Albuquerque for eight years. She also has provided leadership on many community initiatives, such as Streetwise Newspaper in Chicago and Working Mother Media’s Best Companies for Women of Color. As executive director of the Metropolitan Tenants Organization of Chicago, she organized tenants and community groups to improve housing conditions in Chicago’s most impoverished neighborhoods.
While at AISES, Pam grew and strengthened the organization, built up its membership and led the relaunch of the award-winning magazine, Winds of Change.
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Anna Lopez
NAHJ Executive Director
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Over the past decade, Lopez Buck has raised more than $20 million as director of development of National GEM Consortium, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing science and engineering fellowships in underserved communities; UNITY: Journalists of Color and NAHJ.
In 2004 Hispanic Business magazine named Lopez Buck one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics. She coordinated and planned fundraising efforts for the President Barack Obama’s Latino Inaugural Celebration in 2009. Lopez Buck served on the board of the National Hispanic Corporate Council and is a lifetime member of NAHJ.
Lopez Buck returns to NAHJ from the American Red Cross, where she served as executive director for corporate diversity. In that position, she developed strategies to enhance diversity with the American Red Cross and established relationships with key Latino organizations to increase outreach and awareness to better prepare the Latino community during emergencies and disasters.
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Michael Tune
NLGJA Executive DirectorNational Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
2121 L St. NW, Suite 850
Washington, DC 20037
Tel: (202)588-9888
mtune@nlgja.org
Michael Tunecurrently serves as Executive Director of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA). He is entrusted to implement NLGJA’s programs which are designed to strengthen and aid our network of members from across the country. Michael’s passion is in business development, employee growth, and organizational success.
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