Fellows & Editors
 

Vanessa Hua

Trip:
Fellows Spring 2002
Affiliation during program:
San Francisco Chronicle
Country:
Panama
Year:
2002
Email:
[email protected]

Vanessa Hua is an award-winning freelance journalist.  She is working on her novel and graduated from the MFA program in Creative Writing at UC Riverside, where she was a recipient of the Chancellor’s fellowship.   She is the first-place winner of the 2008 Atlantic Monthly student fiction contest.

At the San Francisco Chronicle, she covered Asian American issues.  Previously, she reported on digital culture, technology, and minority business news.  Her overseas assignments have included writing about adult adoptees in South Korea and reporting on returning expatriates in China. She has also reported from Panama and Burma, filing stories on human rights, AIDS, and microfinance programs. She began her career at the Los Angeles Times before heading east to the Hartford Courant.

A Bay Area native, she graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in media studies.

Achievements include the Asian American Journalists Association’s National Journalism Award;  the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter’s in-depth reporting award and the James Madison Freedom of Information Award.  She is a past co-president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association, and a graduate of AAJA’s Executive Leadership Program.

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