Andrew Lam
Andrew is a syndicated writer and an editor with the Pacific News
Service, a short story writer, and a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered.
He co-founded New California Media, an association of 400 ethnic media
organizations in California. His writing has appeared in dozens of
publications across the country, including The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, Mother Jones, The Nation, In Context, Earth Island Journal, Manoa Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod International, Michigan Quarterly West, Zyzzyva, and Transfer Magazine. Lam’s
awards include the Society of Professional Journalists’ Outstanding
Young Journalist Award (1993), The Media Alliance Meritorious award
(1994), The World Affairs Council's Excellence in International
Journalism Award (1992), the Rockefeller Fellowship at UCLA (1992), and
the Asian American Journalists Association National Award (1993; 1995).
He was honored and profiled on KQED television in May 1996 during Asian
American heritage month. |
When: Monday, October 16, 2006 
The scrawny street vendor in Hanoi studies my eyes, my lips. “Brother,” he says, “yours is not a Vietnamese face. It’s a face that has not known suffering.” Then he adds through a sigh, “Had I escaped to America, maybe I too would have such a face—a Viet Kieu face.” 
