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May 5: Publisher Assunta Ng honored with Odegaard Award

May 16, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Charles E Odegaard Award 2011 from Scott Macklin on Vimeo.

From left: NWAW’s Stacy Nguyen, John Liu, George Liu, and Assunta Ng, with UW Interim President Phyllis Wise, FEOP Board President Carol Bailey, and UW Chief Diversity Officer Sheila Edwards Lange

Assunta Ng, founder and publisher of the Seattle Chinese Post and Northwest Asian Weekly, was the 2011 recipient of the University of Washington’s Charles E. Odegaard Award, which is considered the highest achievement in diversity at the UW.

Publisher Assunta Ng with her husband, George Liu

Ng was presented her award at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center during a dinner and scholarship fundraiser for the UW Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity and Friends of the Educational Opportunity Program (FEOP).

About 500 people attended the event, and $229,857 net was raised for the FEOP scholarship fund. ♦

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Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2011, Assunta Ng, Bell Harbor International Conference Center, FEOP, Minority Affairs, Northwest Asian Weekly, Odegaard Award, Publisher Assunta Ng, Seattle Chinese Post, UW, Vol 30 No 20 | May 14 - May 20

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