Happy Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year is in full swing so that means it's time to bust out your red and wish someone a prosperous year. 

The Asian American Journalists Association of Seattle just held its yearly Lunar New Year dinner! My partner in crime, Patranya Bhoolsuwan, helped co-host the event since we're the VP of Events for the group. 

This year we hosted the event at House of Hong in the Chinatown-International District. Patranya did a great job finding the venue... and we had so many wonderful performers thanks to all of our talented friends int he community!

I love our board so much. We are all busy with our journalistic responsibilities, but we somehow manage to find the extra time to raise money forstudents of color and help out with professional development for our members. 

Corinne Chin, Patranya Bhoolsuwan, Michelle, Dahlia Bazzaz, Sarah Wallace, Ramon Dompor, Shirley Qiu

And I also love the fact that it brings together so many of us from other stations. KOMO, KIRO and KING are all represented well at these events... and we are all friends!

L to R: Suzanne Phan, Michelle Li, Lori Matsukawa, Ryan Yamamoto, Patranya Bhoolsuwan.

One thing I love is that we do a dessert dash at the event. If you don't know how that works, tables have to collect money at their table... and the winning table gets to pick out the first dessert. We had an array of awesome desserts to choose from, including these uniquely delicious ube-custard donuts made with from Nate Daep from Big Boys Filipino Truck in Kent. 

We had wonderful performances by the Morning Star Korean Cultural Center, Evan Yanagida, and Justin Young! 

We had so much fun, and I just want to thank everyone for their continued support of AAJA. It takes a lot of work to serve on a board, but many hands do little work! It is special to have so many caring and supportive journalists and friends helping each other in this community!

And also thanks to my husband Jim for supporting us, too! He's not in any of these pictures, but we were there together!