Author, aMagazine co-founder and Wall Street Journal columnist Jeff Yang will accept the Vision Award, basically the event’s equivalent of a lifetime achievement nod. Visibility Awards will be given out to both Our America host-producer Lisa Ling and YouTube performer David Choi. And the recipient of the Voice Award will be none other than AAJA-LA current president Jocelyn “Joz” Wang (pictured). Here’s how Wang framed this unusual in-house kudo during a recent interview with aalimelight.com:

“The third category is the Voice Award, and embarrassingly enough, it’s going to me for my work on 8Asians, V3con, and [previous conference] Banana2 for helping Asian Americans find their voice online. I didn’t ask for it, but I missed a meeting, and the committee voted on this without me!”

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