Teaches various journalism classes and is establishing a new center in the Journalism Department that will focus on the fast-changing developments in the community, ethnic and independent media scene; formerly deputy director of Media, Arts & Culture for the Ford Foundation; first director of the department's Center for Integration & Improvement of Journalism; Pacific Rim reporter, foreign editor, assistant city editor and reporter for The San Diego Union; stringer for The New York Times; reporter for the Catholic Monitor, Enterprise Journal and Ravenswood Post; columnist for the Hokubei Mainichi; graduate of San Francisco State University; visiting scholar, Center on Politics & Public Service, University of California, Berkeley; Jefferson Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu; John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, Stanford University; and National Endowment for the Humanities summer professional fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara.