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Adelaide Chen is a second generation Chinese American, the first among her family born in the U.S.  She has contributed articles to AsianWeek focusing on immigration and the Asian American community.  She has also produced radio stories during the Beijing Olympics for Free Speech Radio News and KPFA radio.

Tyler Sipe studies new media and radio at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.  Before relocating to the Bay Area, Tyler worked for three years as a photojournalist at the Traverse City Record-Eagle in northern Michigan. He was the recipient of numerous awards from the Associated Press and Michigan Press Photographer’s Association. In his free time, Tyler enjoys traveling, cooking with lots of garlic and occasionally playing tennis or volleyball.

Linsay Rousseau Burnett is studying investigative journalism, photography and radio at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She served four years with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division as a journalist, photographer and videographer, with a one-year tour in Iraq. She won awards for her photography, television production and graphic design. With a strong background in the arts, she enjoys singing, playing the piano and acting.

Will Jason got his start in journalism covering Little League baseball when he was 12. Raised in Los Angeles, Jason lived in Boston for almost seven years before finding his way back to California. Before joining 510Report, he was a reporter for the North Bay Business Journal in Santa Rosa.

Karen Weise studies reporting at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She comes from a business background as a management consultant and marketing director. She wrote a book, published by Princeton Architectural Press, and has interned at Southern California Public Radio, MOMA, and Save the Children in Azerbaijan. She loves telling stories about her hysterical grandparents and hitchhiking across Central Asia.

Shipeng Guo is a first-year student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He worked as a researcher for the Reuters news agency in Beijing until August 2008, when he covered the Olympics.

Mateen Kaul recently came to the Bay Area from Lahore, Pakistan, to pursue a master’s degree in journalism at UC Berkeley. Before that, he spent six years in the newsrooms of a daily newspaper and a monthly news magazine in Pakistan