2017 Pacific Bridges

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PACIFIC BRIDGES

STORIES THAT MATTER

IN THIS ISSUE:

Voices from the Field: notes and photos from our current PiAers pages 2 -3

Update from Executive Director Maggie Dillon page 4

Introducing new PiA Program Directors Robin Palmer & Ben Van Son page 5

Stories That Matter: celebrating 20 years of Roxe Media Fellows (feature) pages 6-8

Alumni Notes pages 9-11

For more information about events and to connect with other PiA alums near you, visit our PiA Alumni & Friends Online Community at princetoninasia.360 alumni.com!

“I traveled to Tana Toraja, Indonesia with PiA-er Chloe Hall to see the region’s elaborate funeral rituals and write about them for CNN Travel. These women allowed me to photograph their dress at the funeral and explained some of the traditions.” Lydia Tomkiw, Jakarta Globe (Indonesia ‘11)

VOICES FROM THE FIELD

a collection of notes & photos from our current PiAers in the field

The Lao people with whom I have come in contact have been some of the most kind and generous individuals I have ever met. From my colleagues, with whom I spend 40 hours/week, to the mechanic who fixed my flat tires and the woman who sells pad thai in front of M-Point (think Lao 7-Eleven), there seems to be a culture of “help your neighbor”, which is amazing. It’s a tremendously welcoming environment. On one of my field trips, I had the opportunity to share a meal with a Lao colleague in his childhood home. We had a simple country dinner with catfish and frogs caught in the rice paddies washed down with BeerLao, and talked the night away (talking made way for singing at some point in the night as well, nothing like it). You quickly get roped in to the PSI family, so get ready for a wild ride!

Max Bryski - Population Services International Vientiane, Laos

Photo 1: PiA Fellow Emily Kraeck with her students in Nan, Thailand.

Photo 2: PiA alumna Mai Yer Xiong (middle, Laos ‘15) and current PiAer Soqui Lopez (second from right) in sinh (traditional Lao skirts) in Vientiane.

Photo 3: Millken Institute Fellow Raya Buensuceso with former Vice President Al Gore at the Asia Summit.

Photo 4: Dhamma Moli Buddhist Nunnery Fellow Dani Purkey in Yangon with some of the nuns.

Photo 5: NRDC Fellows Erin Wong, Jamie Lam, Brian Bartholomew, and Noah Lerner celebrate Halloween in the office.

Photo 6: Japan Fellows Emma Saraff, Kelly Luc, and Leland Merrill take on Mt. Takao.

Photo 7: Kazakhstan Fellows Janny Jang, Kalea Power, Rose Hinman, Samuel Curtis, and Ryan O’Donnell and Krygyzstan Fellow Emma Svoboda strike a pose at 3100 meters.

4 There were many little moments this week that I enjoyed immensely, but my favorite probably has to do with running. I decided to wake up even earlier so I could leave on my run by 5:30, when the sky was still dark and the stars are still shining. The world was still quiet when I got beyond the early noises of the market, and as I began running, the way the pale pinks of the early dawn silhouetted the towering forms of the mountains was just stunning. I loved running through the villages of Nonghet before they woke up, and the beauty of the increasingly brightening sky only added to the feeling of absolute peace and joy I was feeling...

Perhaps the best part of all, though, was that when I got back, I chatted with Ai Ser, and he said he wanted to come with me, and so did the other Ai Ser, and half the staffhouse. Today, it wasn’t just me setting off on a morning run, but a group of six of us. Everyone seems committed to it, and it’s an incredible way to spend time with my colleagues. I’m so happy that just by running I accidentally started this daily exercise/bonding activity. It’s the best note to start my day on.

Casey Morrison - ChildFund Nonghet, Laos

7 I work at our beautiful Dongzhimen office developing a curriculum centered around narrative learning and enterprise education, which includes exciting units about presentations, debate, drama, self-reflection, and mindfulness. In the afternoons, I teach this curriculum to middle and high school students in seven different Beijing public schools! The best part of the job is getting to see how different each of the schools are. My classes are all different sizes, ages, student backgrounds, and English levels, and as a teacher, I’m challenged with adapting my instruction style to suit every kind of classroom environment. It’s a rare and really rewarding chance to get a first-hand look into China’s education policy and its public school system...Flourish is growing exponentially, getting noticed all over Beijing, and frequently being cited as the best program the Dongcheng District has to offer. I’m still in awe that I get to be part of it.

Kathryn Gundersen - Flourish Project Beijing, China

I loved running through the villages of Nonghet before they woke up, and the beauty of the increasingly brightening sky only added to the feeling of absolute peace and joy I was feeling.

FROM THE DESK OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MAGGIE DILLON

For 119 years, Princeton in Asia has fostered mutual appreciation and cultural understanding by connecting service-minded graduates and partner organizations in Asia through immersive work experiences that transform perspectives, cultivate long-lasting relationships and benefit local and global communities. For 20 of those years, PiA has been doing so through journalism fellowships. In 1997, Hilary Roxe, the inaugural Media Fellow at PiA, embarked on a two-year fellowship with Time Magazine in Hong Kong. This experience launched a successful career in journalism, international development and education and planted the seed for what would become one of PiA’s most distinctive, immersive and impactful programs: the Roxe Media Fellowships, made possible through the generous support of The Roxe Foundation.

In 1999, Sarah Van Boven and Leila Abboud pioneered posts at Viet Nam News and China Daily, respectively. Moving forward, The Roxe Foundation worked with the legendary PiA Executive Directors Carrie Gordon and Anastasia Vrachnos to grow the program to offer fellow- ships and internships in print, broadcast and digital media, including posts with local news dailies (The Nation, JoongAng Daily and Viet Nam News), western media publications with Asian offices (Time, The Economist Intelligence Unit, and Business Week), a television station (ABS- CBN Broadcasting) and a digital multimedia outlet (Rappler Multimedia). Now, 20 years later, 84 Roxe Media Fellows have cut their journalistic teeth in 10 countries, at 15 media outlets. These fellowships have proved to be amongst PiA’s most valuable and unique,

in that they offer the opportunity for authentic cultural immersion while providing rewarding and marketable professional experiences for aspiring journalists. In addition to gaining insight into another culture, many of the Roxe Media Fellows have gone on to accomplished careers in journalism – in fact, nearly half of the Roxe Media fellowships are still working in the field today. The 2017 cohort has hit the field, and we will keep you posted on their adventures!

Our Roxe Media Fellows and alumni find that their experiences in Asia have shaped them in profound ways, and our partners in Asia are grateful that PiA has provided them with access to a pool of talented young journalists whom otherwise they might not have the opportunity to reach or the resources to support. We are grateful to the Roxe Family – Mr. and Mrs. Joseph and Maureen Roxe, Ms. Hilary Roxe (Hong Kong ’97 and PiA Trustee), Mr. Jay Roxe (Singapore ’95) – for making this possible through the support of The Roxe Foundation. We are grateful to our partners for providing our Fellows with these unique opportunities, and we are grateful to our Roxe Media Fellows for their service. We kicked off the celebration of Roxe Fellowships at the annual dinner, where Katherine Zoepf (Viet Nam News ‘00) and Emmanuella Bonga Bikele (Wall Street Journal - Asia ‘16) rocked a packed house with insightful and inspiring keynote speeches. We wish all of you could have been there and hope you will join us now in celebrating 20 years of this impactful program.

With immense gratitude,

Maggie Dillon

If you’d asked me as a child where I wanted to live when I grew up, I can promise you that “suburban New Jersey” wouldn’t have been my first choice. But as I soak up the beauty of autumnal Princeton, I couldn’t be happier with where I am now.

My Princeton in Asia experience - two years teaching at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan - emerged out of a fascination with Russia and the former Soviet Union that I had developed ever since I started studying Russian as a middle-schooler. As a Slavic Languages and Literatures major at Princeton, I gorged myself on Dostoevsky (and never care to read another work of his again), wrote a 120-page senior thesis on Russian profanity, and cultivated an interest in minority languages of the former Soviet Union.

My senior year, I was fortunate enough to be offered a position at KIMEP and it didn’t take me long to realize that a year in Kazakhstan was an adventure that excited me far more than the prospect of returning to Russia for a fourth time. Living in Almaty allowed me to use my Russian while also exposing me to an entirely new language and culture. Instead of subsisting only on Russian pelmeni and borscht, I was introduced to Kazakh beshbarmak, Uyghur laghman, and Uzbek plov. I sang along to the Russian songs I already knew and learned new ones by local Kazakh artists.

PiA is one of the best communities I’ve ever been a part of, and the opportunity to transition from being a Fellow to being a Program Director was irresistible. Now managing our posts in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, and six cities in China, I’m eager to explore Asia even further. With every story and picture I receive from my Fellows in the field, I’m reminded how lucky I am to be a part of the PiA team.

- Robin Palmer

For me, it all began after college during my first job. I was working as a coordinator for social services for refugees in Philadelphia. Part of my job was conducting home visits, which gave me an intimate opportunity to learn more about my clients past the bureaucratic X’s and O’s. Trying Bhutanese food, learning a word or two of Burmese, and chatting with the Cambodian and Vietnamese shopkeepers was invigorating and made me realize the world was much bigger than my little slice of the Northeast.

By chance, my Dean of Fellowships and I were chatting and he threw out the idea of PiA and I never looked back! I spent two years in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as a teaching and NGO Fellow. I walked away from my Fellowship with so many memories from that first moto ride, to stumbling upon beautiful pagodas, to eating Khmer pork and rice. Even more meaningful, however, were the relationships I cultivated. From my other co-Fellows to my Khmer coworkers, almost everyone I met crafted my PiA years into a wonderful and impactful experience. With their support, I walked away a more humble, flexible, patient, and empathetic person.

I am thrilled to be back now, because I would not have survived my years of PiA without the patient support of the PiA staff. Southeast Asia always finds a way to humble you, and through every bout of food poisoning, moto accident, and other various twists and turns the staff of PiA were always there. I hope I can emulate the kindness and compassion of the staff that came before me.

I have just returned from my Asia trip, and I can say, without a doubt, that our Fellows are some of the most humble, dedicated, and articulate people I have ever met. I am honored and privileged to be a part of their PiA journey.

- Benjamin Van Son

STORIES THAT MATTER

celebrating 20 years of Roxe Media Fellows and telling the stories that matter

In 1997, inaugural PiA Media Fellow Hilary Roxe (Hong Kong ‘97) embarked on a twoyear fellowship with Time Magazine in Hong Kong. Hilary’s fellowship marked the start of her successful career in journalism, international development and education, and planted the seed for what would become one of PiA’s most distinctive and impactful programs: the Roxe Media Fellowships, made possible through the tremendously generous support of The Roxe Foundation.

Over the past 20 years, 84 Fellows have cut their journalistic teeth in 10 countries, at 15 media outlets. We are immensely grateful to the Roxe Family – Mr. and Mrs. Joseph and Maureen Roxe, Ms. Hilary Roxe (Hong Kong ’97 and PiA Trustee), Mr. Jay Roxe (Singapore ’95) – for making this possible through the support of The Roxe Foundation. Please read on for reflections from our Roxe alumni and join us in toasting this incredible program. (above photo: Lydia Tomkiw (Indonesia ‘11) celebrating Chinese New Year with her friend/Indonesian tutor, Niar).

‘Wartawan,’ I responded to the man who had just asked my profession. It’s the Indonesian word for reporter. I was traveling in rural Lombok on my own and was surprised to see a smile spread across the man’s face. He told me it was good I was a journalist because Indonesia needs more of them to cover problems, especially corruption. I knew very little about Indonesia when I landed there. My year at the Jakarta Globe - from writing about the growth in female cab drivers in the traffic-choked megacity to editing numerous business and corruption-focused pieces - taught me how to adapt quickly, immerse myself in places and unfamiliar topics (some thing I’m currently doing as a financial journalist in New York covering the secretive hedge fund world), and work with and appreciate the hard work local journalists around the globe are doing every day. Since that day nearly five years ago I’ve gotten thanks, smiles, and even flowers from a displaced woman forced to flee her home due to the war in Eastern Ukraine who was grateful someone wanted to hear and record her story. But that first smile and thanks, a rarity in the US these days, will always have been in Indonesia. Lydia Tomkiw (pictured above), Jakarta Globe (Indonesia ‘11)

This post has transformed the way I think about and do writing, the manner with which I approach reading and investigative research, and has sharpened my senses of the questions that produce stories. It has blown apart my understanding of this region. It has emboldened me to think critically past the presented facts to arrive at their underlying implications. I have learned how to assess some of the consequences of grand government policies on regular people, and many of my mistaken assumptions have been corrected... For me, the Roxe family and PiA’s generosity has not simply provided an awesome professional opportunity in an up-and-coming part of the world. You have, quite literally, made the impossible happen. To say that my life is changed as a result would not be an overstatement, and I am infinitely grateful to you for the position that I am in, living dreams I wasn’t even bold enough to dream.

Emmanuella Bonga Bikele, The Wall Street Journal - Asia (Hong Kong ‘16)

My fellowship was life-changing. I wrote editorials about more than 12 Asian countries, covered the election of the first female president of Taiwan, and peeked into all strata of Hong Kong society through features on local politics and economy. I returned to the States to attend law school equipped with a more nuanced view of Asia and better writing and critical thinking skills. Now I am engaging in journalism from the legal angle. I’m writing a research paper on Chinese journalists, and last summer I interned at a legal clinic that advocates for media freedom and information access. Ellis Liang, The Wall Street Journal - Asia (Hong Kong ‘15)

I can still remember my phone interview with the JoongAng Daily’s editor-in-chief back in 2007. ‘I have the most to give to this fellowship, and the most to gain,’ I said, referring to my reporting experience in Miami and my desire to connect to my family’s culture. I may have been born Korean-American, but before my PiA fellowship, I didn’t feel Korean, couldn’t speak the language, and knew almost nothing about the country my parents left in the late 1970s.

Who knew then that I would love Seoul so intensely that my oneyear stint would become two, then six-and-a-half as I welcomed a string of PiA successors reported on an overnight stay in the DMZ and interviewed the future U.S. poet laureate. All I knew by that point, at age 21, was that PiA offered an entry-level journalist a spot at a Korean newspaper, and that spot was mine to claim. Simply put, my PiA fellowship in Korea made me who I am today: a leader in promoting newsroom diversity with Asian American Journalists Association, an alum of CNN, Newsday and the U.S. State Department, and someone crazy enough to quit my cushy, NYC newsroom job to obsess over Korean food through my writing and illustrations. Thank you, PiA, for changing my life.

Hannah Bae, The JoongAng Daily (South Korea ‘07)

I am infinitely grateful for the position that I am in, living dreams that I wasn’t even bold enough to dream.

Applying to PiA continues to be one of the best decisions I have ever made. With their support I was able to be on the ground reporting in Myanmar during a time of historic change and political upheaval. But the adventure didn’t stop there. In 2015 I was honored to be selected for the Carriebright award. Myself and a team of local journalism students traveled to remote villages with no written language to capture oral histories and local traditions, with the goal of preserving that knowledge for the generations to come. My students have since built on the work we did in class to establish The Chinland Herald, a local newspaper for their community. Since returning to the States, I’ve been able to parlay these amazing experiences into work with Myanmar community organizations in both Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Bill O’Toole, The Myanmar Times (Myanmar ‘12-’13), Carriebright recipient, “Save Our Stories” (Myanmar ‘15)

Perhaps the most valuable aspect of working at a local media outlet in another country is the ability to look at staid stories with a fresh perspective. My time in South Korea coincided with the ouster of the country’s first democratically elected president, and the experience of working at a local paper and being exposed to the news every day led me to a story that wasn’t as heavily covered in foreign outlets: that the events which led to the president’s impeachment began with a protest against corruption at a local women’s university. A colleague and I produced a podcast episode on this small yet crucial part of the big story surrounding President Park Geun-hye, and I credit the idea to time spent working in a newsroom that is covering Korea from a Korean perspective. The experience has helped me understand what issues matter to contemporary Koreans and broken my Western-centric view of a country I knew little about before coming here, and for that, I am grateful to Princeton in Asia. Gavin Huang, The JoongAng Daily (South Korea ‘15)

After spending two summers on Princeton in Asia’s Summer of Service program in Jishou, China, I was eager for something a little less rustic. Hong Kong seemed to fit the bill. However, despite hanging around the PiA office quite a bit during college, The Wall Street Journal post didn’t come onto my radar until it was time for the alumni interview. I talked about my love of writing, my anthropological research in China, and my desire to wade into a more corporate environment—all things that seemed a good fit for a journalism stint at Dow Jones.

What I did not expect was that a month after I arrived in Hong Kong, the Umbrella Movement would break out, bringing Asia’s World City to a standstill. The other members of the editorial page were out of town when the initial protests occurred, meaning I was the only one available to go out and interview people on the streets. A week later I had my first byline. By the end of my time at WSJ, I got to report from Jakarta, debate capital punishment with a Pulitzer Prize winner, and review China’s premier auto museum. Even now, it seems surreal that it all happened during my first year out of college. Cameron White, The Wall Street Journal - Asia (Hong Kong ‘14)

By the end of my time at WSJ, I got to report from Jakarta, debate capital punishment with a Pulitzer Prize winner, and review China’s premier auto museum. Even now, it seems surreal that it all happened during my first year out of college.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

PiA alumni on the move in Asia (can’t let the current Fellows have all the fun!)

Brent Scharschmidt (Thailand ’05) recently spent a few weeks hiking across Mongolia. Not only did he meet the famed eagle huntress Aisholpan (of the acclaimed 2016 film, The Eagle Huntress), but he also managed to score a dinner date with the PiA Fellows in Ulaanbaatar! Only one person came down with food poisoning after the dinner, which Brent considered a major success.

Dr. Eric Han (Japan ’96) returned to Kurashiki last year to conduct research for his upcoming book. He met with PiA Fellows Gill Ober, AJ Koikoi and PiA Partner Mark Blanton. He reports, “Much has remained the same in the town. The school looks nearly as it did 20 years ago. Many of the same teachers are still there, and they gave me a warm welcome. It was good to see that many of the local businesses were still in operation. I was happy to show [Gill, AJ, and Mark] a local yakitori restaurant that was still run by the same folks as twenty years ago. A few days later, AJ joined me on a trip to Naoshima, a small island made famous by a number of art museums. It was a wonderful fall day, and we had a good time sampling the local cuisine (udon) and beer as well as the famous art of the island.”

Esteban Aguel (Cambodia ’13) and Daniel Kelley (Cambodia ’13) visited their old stomping ground of Phnom Penh before Esteban moved across the country to San Francisco. They took the opportunity to catch up with the current PiA Fellows in the city and eat a traditional Khmer meal of…..burritos.

Noah Lerner (China ’17), Matt DeButts (China ’14), Kai Hsu (China ’14) and Collin Smith (China ’14, not pictured) took a reunion trip to Yunnan over Spring Festival. No PiA 4 Lyfe tattoos yet, but they are definitely keeping the spirit alive.

Stephanie Siaw (Thailand ’11), Natalia Rodrigues (Hong Kong ’13), and friend snorkel off the shore of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia. Stephanie recently relocated from Singapore to London, and her PiA family in the Little Red Dot misses her dearly!

Colin Emerson (Singapore ’08) married Fon Aparat this summer in Bangkok with the support of his many groomsmen, including PiA Trustee Kurt Kuehne (Singapore ’08). After his wedding, Colin left his adopted home in Singapore to start graduate school at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Congratulations and best wishes to Colin and Fon!

ON THE JOB

in the US of A

Julia Gall (Kazakhstan ’12) is back in the Pacific Northwest after spending a year on research on mental health in Moldova, and she has been busy! She has already interned for U.S. Senator Mari Cantwell, created illustrations for a USAID-funded project in Pakistan, secured a new position at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and generously volunteered at PiA interviews.

Samantha Luu (China ’14) and Supriya Sadagopan (Thailand ’16) are new students in the MPH program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Go Tar Heels! The two co-led an information session for PiA in conjunction with the Carolina Asia Center.

A former data scientist, Dan Kopf (Vietnam ’05) joined the digital news outlet Quartz as a San Francisco-based reporter focusing on economics and market coverage. Follow him on Twitter @dkopf.

Sakura Christmas (China ’08) has joined the faculty at Bowdoin College as an Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies. Tarryn Chun (Taiwan ’06) has joined the facuty of the University of Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, where her research primarily focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese theatre.

Jill Capotosto (Vietnam ’14) has traded the Lone Star State for the Green Mountain State to work on communications for the Institute for Sustainable Communities. She recently co-organized PiA’s first information session at the University of Vermont with post-bac student, Anna Seeman (Laos ’15)!

NOT TOO COOL

Up in Cambridge, Austin Jordan (Japan ’16) is pursuing his PhD in Political Science, Brian Santana de la Rosa (Kazakhstan ’10) is a first-year MBA student, and Jordan Huynh (Macau ’16) has started a Master’s degree in Teaching and Curriculum, all at Harvard University. Further north, Mathew O’Sullivan (Mongolia ’12) is pursuing an MBA at the Tuck School of Business.

Both pursuing their MBA degrees at The Wharton School, Jibran Khan (Thailand ’12) and Derek Porter (China ’12) have joined the growing PiA posse in Philadelphia.

FOR SCHOOL

Luke Cianciatto (Hong Kong ’15) has started a Master’s program in Sociology and Anthropology and Dan Healy (Singapore ’13) is working on his MPP, both at the Univ. of Chicago. Nikolai Kapustin (East Timor ’13, Singapore ’14) started an MPA program at UW Madison.

COMMUNITY FOR LIFE

a miscellaneous collection of moments, milestones, and achievements from our amazing PiA community

Got something to share? Email Natalia at piaalum@princeton.edu so we can show you off in the next installment of Pacific Bridges. Terima kasih and hope to hear from you soon!

Rena Chen (Singapore ’11) and Bilesh Ladva (Vietnam ’11) strike a pose after Rena tied the knot with her now-husband, TJ, in Crescent, Oregon. Heather Soleau (Singapore ‘11) and Benjamin Pratt (Thailand ‘12) were also in attendance, and the rest of their PiA co-Fellows were sorely missed!

Dolgormaa “Dolly” Jamiyan, PiA’s longtime safety advisor in Mongolia, and her very handsome grandson. His name is Jonon (Jonny), meaning “prince”. Anyone related to Dolly is royalty in PiA’s eyes!

From Lisa Qi (Singapore ’09): “This photo that was taken last weekend, when PiA alums across different years and countries found themselves drinking beers together in snowy Tahoe. Although my days in Asia are sadly so far behind me now, I love that to this day, some of my best friends are PiA alums and that I continue to meet more PiA alums here in San Francisco.”

The 2014 Vietnam crew (from left: Audrey Jenkins, Ben Scrimshaw, Jill Capotosto, Veronica Lai, Ramzi Babouder-Matta and Lainey Freels) reunited last spring in New Hampshire for a day of snowshoeing and fresh mountain air! Name a more iconic group... We’ll wait.

From left: Liza Lopez, Kasey Koopmans, Sherry Lin, Lisa Qi, David Cogswell

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SALUTING 20 YEARS OF ROXE MEDIA FELLOWSHIPS:

ROXE ALUMNI 1997-2016

Hilary Roxe, Leila Abboud, Sarah Van Boven, Josh Chin, Brian Bennett, Katherine Zoepf, Grace Wong, Brian Walsh, Anthony Broadman, George Pence, Xiochan Yan, Ed Finn, Emma Soichet, Janine Young, Katy Niner, Kirsten Jerch, Will Leahy, Sun Jung Kim, Brook Lewy, Alyson Zureick, Ben Applegate, Sara Schapiro, Christina Nelson, Will McNamara, Julie Ginsberg, Ali Smith, Leslie Hook, Hannah Bae, Jacob Gold, Paul Mozur, Brendan Brady, Bayley Seibolt, Yushin Chuang, Janis Foo, Christopher Shay, Andrew Siddons, Alice Lloyd George, Tatiana Lau, Beth Morrissey, James O’Toole, David Stout, Thomas Miller, Brian No, Emily Hildner, Katherine Visconti, Raymond Zhong, Kristin Lynch, Derek Stout, Jack Ackerman, Rachel Poser, Katherine Visconti, Christopher Carrothers, Ryan Brooks, Justine Drennan, Ethan Harfenist, Elisabeth Rosen, David Walter, Devon Wong, Jeremy Mullins, Amelia Woodside, Laignee Barron, Anjie Zheng, Ben Soloway, Julie Vitkovskaya, Charles Rollet, Sarah Taguiam, Annalise Frank, Joshua Schenkkan, Cameron White, Cally Trautwein, Ayanna Runcie, Alessandro Marazzi-Sassoon, Emily Petsko, Gavin Huang, Ellis Liang, R.J. Vogt, Andrew Nachemson, Mathieu de Gaudemar, Dean Max Marshall, Emmanuella Bonga Bikele, James Constant, Lillian Kalish, Sam Bresnick

ROXE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS 1997-2016

TIME Magazine, China Daily, Viet Nam News, Business Week, Wall Street JournalAsia, Economist Intelligence Unit, JoongAng Daily, The Nation, ABS-CBN Broadcasting, Far Eastern Economic Review, Phnom Penh Post, Rappler Multimedia, Jakarta Globe, Myanmar Times, Lake House/The Daily News