Asian American Journalists Association

San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

presents

Career Remix: Exploring Journalism's New Frontiers

Sponsors: General Motors, Academy of Art University

Partners: South Asian Journalists Association

Catering: Flavours by Sodexo

SCHEDULE

9:00 am Registration and light breakfast

9:45 Welcome

Jan Yanehiro

Director of the School of Multimedia Communications, Academy of Art University. Emmy-winning broadcast journalist. Former co-host of “Evening Magazine.”

10:00 The Power of One: Designing a freelance career that works for you

Ellen Lee

Freelance technology and business journalist.

Vanessa Hua

Award-winning journalist and fiction writer.

Marie Baca

Journalist, essayist and humor writer.

11:15 Rethinking the ‘Dark Side’: Why you might just love PR & marketing today

Wendy Tanaka

Senior executive, Sitrick and Company.

Cybil Wallace

Executive Producer of the Creative Newsroom, Edelman

Dave Barthmuss

Group Manager, West Coast Communication team, General Motors.

12:15 pm Buffet Lunch & Networking

1:15 Media Entrepreneurship: Making it in Silicon Valley and beyond

Burt Herman

Co-founder, Storify

Jigar Mehta

Director of Operations, Matter.vc

Adriano Farano

Co-founder, Watchup

2:45 Closing