Wendy Tokuda

TOKUDA Wendy (Chang A)

 

Wendy Tokuda

News Anchor

Wendy Tokuda received her BA degree cum laude from the University of Washington. She has been a Bay Area news anchor and reporter for many years. She is also active in many community organizations and was the founding president of the Bay Area chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. Her series entitled Students Rising Above profiles low-income, at- risk teenagers and has received many national awards, including the Peabody Award, a National Emmy for Public Service and the NAB Education Foundation’s Service of America Award. In 2010 at the Northern California Emmy Awards ceremony, she received the Governors’ Award in recognition of her television work and public service.

(Portrait by Avis Chang, SFSU 2013)