It seems like Obama is putting together a pretty diverse team and it could be the most Asian Americans in a presidential administration. Steven Chu is tapped for energy secretary and Eric Shinseki for veterans affairs.
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog notes that the position is primarily a talking head job, so a TV reporter is a good pick. What do you think?
Editor in Chief Harry Mok wrote about growing up on a Chinese vegetable farm for the second issue of Hyphen and has been a volunteer editor since 2004. As a board member of the San Francisco and New York chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association, Harry has recruited and organized events for student members. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a graduate student instructor in the Asian American Studies Department.
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