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Grace Moon is the global audience editor at the Washington Post’s Seoul hub, where she helps shape digital strategy for global audiences by selecting story targets and training breaking news reporters and editors in best practices for optimization. Before joining the Post, Grace was a freelance reporter and producer in Seoul, working for clients including Rest of World, NBC News, BBC Worklife and The Wall Street Journal. She first joined AAJA as the student representative of the New York Chapter in 2017 and continued her journey as a 2019 AAJA VOICES fellow, where convention was held in her home state Texas. She currently also serves as one of AAJA’s Mentor Match co-leads.
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Rachel Ramirez is a climate writer with CNN based in New York, where she covers the climate crisis, science and environmental justice. She focuses on breaking news, trend stories, and deeply reported narratives to help readers understand how climate change affects all aspects of our lives. Before that, Rachel was a freelance reporter writing for various publications including Vox, HuffPost, The Guardian, Grist and more. She's been involved with AAJA since 2017 as a VOICES student at the Philadelphia convention, and later became co-lead of AAJA's Pacific Islander Task Force. She was also part of the AAJA 2021 convention programming committee.
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Gwen Wu is an engagement reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she writes the newspaper's flagship daily newsletter, Bay Briefing. Her other responsibilities include hopping on trending news and utility journalism. Previously, she was a Hearst Fellow at the San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle, the latter at which she spent two years covering health care, consumer issues and COVID-19. Gwen was a 2018 AAJA VOICES student in Houston, and has belonged to the Los Angeles, Texas and SF chapters at various points in her career.
Join Yung leadership!
We are always looking for leaders to step up and help us run this group. To get involved on a volunteer basis in any capacity — running an event, a social night, or working on a larger task like member engagement — email Beena at yung@aaja.org.