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. ♦
