The Asian American Journalists Association’s Los Angeles chapter, in partnership with the Los Angeles Times, is excited to announce the 2024 Greg Yee Training Grant recipients.
Shreya Agrawal, $1,200 to attend the Society of Environmental Journalists Conference in Philadelphia
Shreya Agrawal is an environmental journalist and recent USC graduate with degrees in earth sciences, creative writing and journalism. She is currently working as a healthcare news intern for CalMatters and a newsroom fellow at the Xylom. Previously, she worked at Malheur Enterprise as a rural climate reporting fellow for the USC Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication. She also founded and worked as the inaugural editor for USC Annenberg Media Earth, the first environmental reporting desk at USC. Her work has also appeared in Los Angeles Times and Planet Forward.
Allison Armijo, $750 for a narrative journalism class
Allison Armijo is a rising senior at Emerson College, where they study creative writing. During their time at Emerson, they have written for MIT News, Emerson Today, the Los Angeles Times and their hometown paper, the El Segundo Herald. Currently, Allison is the web editor for the Gay & Lesbian Review, a bimonthy magazine of LGBTQ politics, culture and history based out of Boston. More broadly, they are interested in exploring the intersection of queer sex and love through the bodies that facilitate those relationships.
Aviraj Gokool, $1,100 for travel to Japan and membership in the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan
Avi Gokool is a freelance journalist working in Los Angeles and Tokyo. He has a keen interest in Japanese culture, history and social issues, and aspires to be a Japan-based foreign correspondent. His work can be found at AsAmNews. He majored in literary journalism at UC Irvine.
Tianrui Huang, $1200 to attend the AAJA convention in Austin
Tianrui Huang is a philosophy-economics double major at UC San Diego. As a senior staff member for the campus newspaper UCSD Guardian, she has also worked at LGBT metropolitan news Washington Blade, the investigative paper Voice of San Diego and HK-based outlet RADII. Born and raised in Hunan, China, Tianrui aspires to further broaden her coverage horizons, delving into areas such as business policy and Asian American communities.
Michelle Peng, $1,200 to attend the AAJA convention in Austin
Michelle Peng is an L.A.-based reporter at Charter, a startup newsroom focused on issues related to the modern workplace. She contributes to a diverse coverage of topics, including labor and unions, childcare and working parents, and remote and hybrid work, published in Charter’s newsletters and at TIME.com/Charter. A latecomer to the journalism industry, Michelle graduated from Yale College in 2019 and spent the first couple of years of her career embedded in the world of childcare policy and grassroots organizing. Outside of work, you can find her taking advantage of all that Southern California has to offer, whether that’s ski trips in the winter, beach days in the summer, live shows at venues across L.A., or trying new restaurants in the best food city in the world.
Learn more about the Greg Yee Training Grants here.