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San Francisco Bay Area Chapter leadership

The AAJA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter board is elected by its members. The board meets regularly to plan activities, programs and fundraisers as well as discuss issues relevant to the chapter and our members. For information about the next board meeting, contact sfbayarea@aaja.org. Board meeting minutes are available to chapter members upon request. 

JANA KATSUYAMA, President

Jana Katsuyama

Jana Katsuyama joined KTVU as a reporter in 2007 and became part of the Ten o’clock News team in 2012. During her time at KTVU, Jana has won multiple Emmy awards and her investigation into paper automobile dealer plate loopholes led to an Assembly bill that changed California’s license plate laws so new cars no longer can be on the road without a license plate.

Before working at KTVU, Jana was an anchor and reporter at the ABC affiliate WDTN in Dayton, Ohio. She began her career at the NBC affiliate KBJR in Duluth, Minn.

Before entering journalism, Jana worked as an international relations coordinator for the Hiroshima YMCA Medical College in Yonago, Japan. She also was selected to teach English in Japan through the Japanese Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Education’s JET Program.

Jana is originally from Dayton and graduated with honors from Oberlin College with a double major in English Literature and East Asian Studies. 

Twitter/X: @JanaKTVU

 

MJ JOHNSON, Vice President

 

MJ Johnson is a documentary filmmaker and visual journalist who has been involved with AAJA since her college years. She previously contributed as a local reporter to KQED, San Francisco Examiner, The Oaklandside and The Oregonian. She covers stories on racial justice, identity, gender equity and the complex history of California’s diverse communities. MJ was born and raised in Japan and emigrated as a teenager to the US. She received her journalism education at San Francisco State University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her free time is mostly taken up with taiko drumming.
 

Instagram: @newsbymj

 

GREG WONG, Treasurer

Greg Wong is a play-by-play sports broadcaster in the Bay Area and an award-winning reporter for the San Francisco Examiner, where he covers a variety of news throughout the city, with a focus on Asian American issues and profile writing. He also does TV and radio announcing of basketball, football, and baseball games for his alma mater, UC Davis and the minor league baseball team, the Sacramento River Cats.

Greg was born and raised in Berkeley and graduated from UC Davis in 2015, where he was named one of the best collegiate sports broadcasters in the nation by the Sportscasters Talent Agency of America.

In his downtime, Greg is probably watching, and getting unreasonably upset at, the Golden State Warriors or eating dim sum. Sometimes both at the same time.

Twitter/X: @gregoryhwong

KEVIN V. NGUYEN, Secretary

Kevin V. Nguyen is a business and sports reporter at The San Francisco Standard. AAJA helped him get his first journalism break in Sacramento. He lives in San Jose. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as an analyst in the tech industry.
 

Twitter/X: @KevinNguyen_89

 

 

KEVIN TRUONG, Board Member

Kevin Truong has been active in AAJA since he had the opportunity in college to take part in the Voices fellowship at the National Convention. He has since served as a mentor for AAJA’s inaugural JCal program with CalMatters for high school journalists. He is excited about providing community and connection for the next generation of journalists through the organization.

Kevin is the business editor of The San Francisco Standard. He was previously a reporter and editor at the San Francisco Business Times, where he covered commercial real estate, biotech and the innovation economy.

A proud UCLA graduate, Kevin cut his teeth at the Daily Bruin student newspaper and news organizations like the Christian Science Monitor, NBC Los Angeles and Marketplace before making his way north to the City by the Bay. 

Twitter/X: @Kevinbtruong 

SHAYLYN MARTOS, Board Member

shaylyn martos is a Gracie Award-winning producer, host and GM drawing from multimedia experience to produce solutions-focused work. shaylyn managed and mentored BIPOC youth journalists as a producer in YR Media’s newsroom; she was also the season 3 host of “Inherited,” a climate justice podcast featuring emerging storytellers.

shaylyn is a proud member of the AIR’s New Voices, the NPR Next Generation Radio family and the inaugural early-career cohort of Chips Quinn Scholars. Their work is also featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered”, the Washington Post’s “Post Reports”, KQED’s “The Bay”, and KCBS radio.

AGNEE GHOSH, Board Member

I cover artificial intelligence and business at Bloomberg News through the Tarbell Fellowship, reporting on markets, companies, earnings and policy. Previously, I wrote for outlets including BBC, NPR, Vice and Atmos, where my stories focused on climate justice, labor rights and underrepresented communities.

 

 

 

Ava Hu, Student Board Member

Ava Hu is a bilingual reporter specializing in data-driven and international reporting. Her work has appeared in AAPI Data, Initium Media, Houston Chronicle, and The Guardian. Her reporting on international students received the SPJ 2025 Breaking News Award and the AFPC Foreign Correspondent Scholarship. In 2025, Hu also reported on cross-border disinformation between China and the United States as part of AAJA Voices. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in data reporting at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.