AsAmNews is proud to announce this year’s inductees into the AsAmNews Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame.

Each of these readers is being recognized for their tax-deductible donations to support our staff and contract workers, to expand our offerings as well as to improve our news coverage.

Your donations can be made via debit or credit card, Venmo, Google Pay, PayPal or ACH through this link.

Those who prefer to mail a check from their bank or donor advised fund should make the check out to  Asian American Media Inc, the 501 (c) (3) that publishes AsAmNews. Our mailing address is 440 N. Barranca Avenue #8117, Covina, CA 91723

Asian American Media Inc, the non-profit that publishes AsAmNews 365 days a year, has been approved by the IRS as a 501c3. That means your donations are now tax deductible.

Contributions through this link are being accepted.

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Elite Gold Members

$100,000 or more

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Gold Members

$75,000 or $99,999

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Elite Silver Members

• AARP

$50,000 – $74,999

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Premier Silver Members

$25,000 – $49,999

• Report for America: The GroundTruth Project
• The Asian American Foundation 
• Koo & Patricia Yuen of the Yuen Foundation

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Premier Super Elite Members

$10,000 – $24,999

• Institute for Non-Profit News
• Gordon Lew
• URL Collective
• Randall & Gale Yip

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Premier Elite Members
$5,000 – $9,999

• Lily M. Fan
• Buck Gee & Mary Hackenbracht
• Intuit
• Deb & Dave Liu

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Elite Members
$1,000 – $4,999

• Satesh & Kamlesh Agarwal
• Asian American Journalists Association
• Daisy Chan
• Steve and Terri Chan
• Jane Chin
• Margaret Chin
• Christopher Chow
• Constance Chung
• Patty Fong 
• Lam Consulting Group
• Jeffrey Hsi
• Barbara Emy and John Huang
• Edwin Lee 
• Kevin Lee
• Paul & Wendy Leung
• Dickson Louie
• Sylvia and Dave Omoto 
• Victoria Pao
• Renaissance Charitable
• Germaine Wong
• Dave Liu & Lauren Wu
• Frank Mah & Jeannie Young

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Super Premier Members
$500 – $999

• Samantha Cheng
• Raymond Chong
• Lucy Hojo Denson
• Henry Der
• Nancy Leung 
• Levi Strauss Foundation
• Rudy & Kim Lin
• David Louie
• Vanita Louie
• Charlene Low
• James Umino
• William Schick
• Andrew Yang
• Mona Lisa Yuchengco
• Linda Young

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Premier Members
$100 – $499 

• Frank Acojido
• Ravi Chandra
• Connie Chang
• Sokhom Chhoeung
• Erin Chew
• John Cho
• Rowena Chow
• Ronald Chong
• Clarisse DaSilva
• Cheryl and Daniel Dulas
• Katheryn Fong
• Carl Gutekunst and Robbin Kawabata
• Chester Lee 
• May Hashimoto
• Edward Iwata
• James Hom & Tina Okawa
• Alvin Ho
• Linh Hoang
• Don Joe
• Ken Kashiwara
• Steve Kawai
• Kane Koo
• Bonnie Kwong
• CN Le
• Christopher & Tori Lee
• Jeanine Lee
• John Lee
• Terrence Lee
• Diana Leong
• Nancy Leong
• Loids Lewis
• Dottie Li
• Jessica Lim
• Nancy Lim-Yee
• Yvonne Liu
• SK Lo
• Peggy Lore
• Felicia Lowe
• Randall Lowe
• Daniel Gonzales
• Jesse & Deneen Moises
• Marlowe Ng
• Michelle Oyakawa
• Rakuten
• Jeannie Salomon
• Kaz Sato
• Jeannie Shu 
• Masako Takahashi
• Lydia Tanji
• Steve Tamanaha
• Virginia Tong
• Jonathan Wen
• Glenn White
• Winston Wu
• Allen Yang
• Virginia Yee
• Melmie Young
• Breene Yuen
• Hoyt Zia

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Supreme Members
$45 – $99

• Anonymous
• Robert Aranoff
• Serena Chen
• Then Chong
• Lee Daniels
• Linda Doon
• Samantha Fiske
• Laurie Fong
• Bailey Franzen
• Janice Gillmore, in honor of Hee Soon Kim 
• Shelly Gin
• Theresa Hom
• Stephanie Hoo
• Jacqueline Huey 
• Arlene Kimata
• Eileen Lamphere 
• Robert Lee
• Michael Lent
• Veronica Li
• Pei-te Lien
• Mary Morris
• Karen Ng
• Toby Rider
• Helen Chin Schlichte
• David Shin 
• Janet Spatafora 
• Mari Tsutsumi
• Stephanie Westnedge
• Edward Wong
• Eric Wong
• Sabrina Wu
• Candice Yokomizo 

Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame
$20 – $44

• Robert Aranoff
• Lonnie Bottino
• Judith Cain
• Richard Chin
• Reginald Chun
• James Fong
• Loretta Go
• Harold Kameya
• Mei Jue Lai
• Jeanie Lee
• Will Leong
• Priscilla McGuire
• Kathy Pucci
• Graciano Politan
• Louise Sakamoto
• Mary Sanders
• Gary Szelc
• Terry Tang
• Wyman Tom

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