STAFF
Ling Woo Liu, Founding Director
(photo by Peter Lemieux)
Ling Woo Liu comes to the Korematsu Institute with a wealth of media experience and a passion for giving a voice to the voiceless. She has spent five of the past 10 years living in Asia, most recently in Hong Kong, where she worked for three years as a magazine reporter and video producer for TIME magazine and TIME.com. She has reported for the Associated Press as well as television and radio stations including CNN World Report and KQED radio. Ling is the director of Officer Tsukamoto, a documentary film about the unsolved murder of a Japanese-American police officer in 1970. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ling holds master’s degrees in Journalism and Asian Studies from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from UC Berkeley.
2010 Summer Interns
Sunny Kim is a double major in Asian American Studies and Business Administration at UC Berkeley. She also currently writes for hardboiled, UC Berkeley’s Asian Pacific Islander newsmagazine. Sunny was inspired to join the Korematsu Institute after meeting Karen Korematsu and Don Tamaki, an attorney who represented Fred Korematsu, in her Asian American law course at Berkeley.
Ashlyn Kong is pursuing a double major in Political Science and Media Studies at UC Berkeley. She recently completed an undergraduate research apprenticeship in Sociology, where she researched the trajectories of presidential campaign staffers. Ashlyn was inspired to join the Korematsu Institute after learning about Fred Korematsu’s case in history and politics courses and discussing its significance with her mother, a third-generation Japanese American.
Aya Jennifer Sakaguchi is a recent graduate of Bowdoin College with a double major in French and Government and Legal Studies and a minor in Africana Studies. She has experience working with non-profit organizations, including the office of Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, the Center for International Policy in Washington DC and the Exploratorium. Aya is very excited to join the Korematsu Institute to help increase awareness and educational opportunities about the importance of civil liberties and of human rights.
Winnie Wong is studying documentary filmmaking and multimedia journalism at the Berkeley Digital Film Institute and SF’s Academy of Art University. She received a BA in Law & Society at UC Santa Barbara and has worked as a technology sales professional for the last four years. She is very excited to be part of the Korematsu Institute because she is passionate about social justice, community activism, and producing media to educate individuals about these topics.
