The International Examiner

Diem Ly (Editor in Chief) is a Vietnamese American who was born in Renton, grew up in Everett, and now lives in Kent. She attended the University of Washington and graduated with a Bachelor of Science and minor in neuroscience. Her plans to become a scientist were stunted when she rediscovered her love of writing. After graduating from the UW, she studied journalism, took journalism courses, interned at King 5 News, and freelanced for the International Examiner (IE). She then worked as a morning news writer for Northwest Cable News (NWCN), waking up at 3 a.m. to write 5-6 news stories for each of the 6 a.m., 8 a.m., 10 a.m., and noon shows. While at NWCN four days a week, she worked as an Assistant Editor at the IE three or more days a week before becoming Editor in Chief in April 2008. She has been invited to speak at college journalism and communications classes, participated in media discussion panels (ex. “Democracy in Media” at UW Bothell), and is an advisory member of the Vietnamese Friendship Association’s Community Action Research and Empowerment Group (CARE) project. She was recently honored by the Miss Vietnam Washington organization (MVWA) with a Recognition award for her Contributions to the API community at a gala (Dec. 5, 2009). She loves history, reading, and is trying to learn to play the guitar.

Nick Wong (Assistant Editor) was born in Anchorage, Alaska, grew up in Bellevue and has lived all over Latin America. Graduating from the UW with a double-degree in Sociology and American Ethnic Studies, he now works between his passions of photojournalistic storytelling and implementing financial business models to serve and uplift communities. Nick is a Bonderman fellow, Mary Gates Scholar, and spends most of his day writing, cooking and tending to his fish. In his spare time he participates in the amateur boxing ranks and his dream is to build boxing gyms around the world.

Phi Du Le (Advertising Representative)

Bely Luu (Development Officer) was born in Vietnam, but is ethnically Chinese. She speaks fluent Cantonese and proficient Mandarin. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Social Work. Her passion is in social justice which led to her involvement with the Asian Counseling Referral Service (ACRS) prior to working with the IE.

Alan Lau is a grocer, artist, and poet. He served the Asian American arts community as the IE Arts Editor for over 30 years. He ‘s a published poet and author and is the editor of the nation’s most comprehensive Asian Pacific American book review, the Pacific Reader. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and national and international shows.

Ellen Suzuki (Business Manager) is a former Seattle Japanese Community Queen and has contributed as the IE Business Manager for over 12 years. She has two granddaughters she loves very much, loves to garden, cook and bake delicious goodies.

Abe Wong (Production Designer) grew up in Portland and attended the UW, studying graphic design. He worked in corporate design before pursuing more community-oriented projects. He recently came on-board the IE as a Production Designer. His hobby is playing bass guitar in an indie-rock band.

Landon Acohido (Webmaster) was born in Everett and has spent most of his life in the greater Seattle area. Landon has deep multimedia production experience in the areas of web design, graphic design, videography, and photography. He has spent six years designing and developing high-quality custom websites, utilizing techniques such as hand-coding XHTML and CSS as well as installing and modifying Content Management Systems utilizing LAMP and WordPress. www.acohido.com