{"id":23598,"date":"2012-06-04T02:12:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T02:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23598"},"modified":"2013-02-20T04:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:51:42","slug":"portland-chapter-member-dmae-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23598","title":{"rendered":"Portland Chapter Member: Dmae Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaja.org\/dmae-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Chapter Member: Dmae Roberts<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaja.org\" target=\"_blank\">Asian American Journalists Association<\/a><br \/>\n2012-05-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doris Truong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dmaeroberts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dmae Roberts<\/a> is a two-time Peabody Award-winning radio artist\/writer whose work airs regularly on NPR. Her work is often autobiographical and cross-cultural and is informed by her biracial identity. Her Peabody award-winning documentary, \u201cMei Mei: A Daughter\u2019s Song,\u201d is a harrowing account of her mother\u2019s childhood in Taiwan during World War II.\u00a0 Dmae won a second Peabody for the documentary \u201cCrossing East,\u201d the first Asian American history series on public radio. She received the Dr. Suzanne Ahn Civil Rights and Social Justice Award from the Asian American Journalists Association and was selected as a United States Artists (USA) Fellow. Dmae is a regular columnist for the Asian Reporter and hosts a weekly arts show in Portland, Ore., called \u201cStage &amp; Studio.\u201d Her essay \u201cFinding the Poetry\u201d was published in a book of essays called \u201cReality Radio.\u201d She is working on her memoir, \u201cLady Buddha and the Temple of Ma.\u201d Dmae is on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dmaeroberts\" target=\"_blank\">@dmaeroberts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q&amp;A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your life\u2019s motto?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know that I have one. I\u2019ve worked since I was 14 years old during summers in farm fields and all through college in canneries and mills to support myself. My driving theme, though, has been to have work that means something and somehow make the world better in even a small way. \u2026 It was important to me have work I loved and not focus only on the financial aspects but find the passion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you become a journalist? What inspired you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was a theater major in college and saved up money after the first two years of school to travel the world both to Asia and Europe. When I returned I decided to focus on my writing and get a degree in journalism at the University of Oregon so I could make a living doing something other than manual labor. That\u2019s when I happened upon KLCC, a community radio station in Eugene. I fell in love with producing creative art pieces for public radio. I found that creating radio movies puts powerful images, emotions and scenes in your imagination in a way no other medium can do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaja.org\/dmae-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Chapter Member: Dmae Roberts Asian American Journalists Association 2012-05-28 Doris Truong Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody Award-winning radio artist\/writer whose work airs regularly on NPR. Her work is often autobiographical and cross-cultural and is informed by her biracial identity. Her Peabody award-winning documentary, \u201cMei Mei: A Daughter\u2019s Song,\u201d is a harrowing account of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,13743,8,20,25],"tags":[11009,1543,11008],"class_list":["post-23598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-asian-american-journalists-association","tag-dmae-roberts","tag-doris-truong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}