Thanks to everyone who attended our 2024 Scholarship and Awards Gala! We are very grateful for your participation and support, which enables us to continue providing scholarship assistance to our brilliant APAA Scholars—the future leaders, change makers, innovators and entrepreneurs who will make us all proud!
To help us award scholarships to students and host worldwide programs for alumni, please consider making a gift of any size to APAA. Whatever you give will make a positive difference.
Congresswoman, U.S. House of Representatives, CA 40th District
Jaime L. Lee ’06, JD ’09
Trustee, USC Board of Trustees and CEO, Jamison Realty, Inc.
2024 Legacy Award
Yoshio C. Nakamura ’52, MFA ’53
Artist, Educator, and Decorated U.S. WWII Veteran
2024 Sponsors
We would like to thank our sponsors for supporting our annual APAA Scholarship and Awards Gala. As our main fundraiser of the year, your support allows us to continue to provide scholarships to our undergraduate and graduate students at USC as well as developing programming to engage alumni lifelong and worldwide.
Platinum Sponsors
Jaime Lee and Matt Cheesebro Jamison
Gold Sponsors
Jaime Lee Family & Friends
Cardinal Sponsors
East West Bank Curtis & Lynn Jung Mitchell & Deena Lew Schism Design architecture & interiors Patrick & Stefani Takahashi US Bank USC Alumni Association
Trojan Sponsors
Bryan and Julie Min Frank Sim, CORE Alumni-Nor Cal USC Credit Union USC Gould School of Law USC Marshall School of Business
Student Table Sponsors
Kuuipo Cashman and Karen Crawford Ara and Armineh Tavitian
USC Band Sponsors
Kuuipo Cashman Kenneth Jung and Family
Immortals Lion Dance
Patricia Tom Mar and Harry Mar
Gala contributions are tax-deductible with the exception of $200 if your sponsorship/ticket comes with dinner. Individual admission (no meals or wine included) is 100% tax-deductible.
Past Honorees
APAA President’s Award
Steven B. Sample
Wilfred Steven Uytengsu Jr. ’83
APAA Leadership Award
Husodo Angkosubroto ’77
Frank Buckley ’87
Junita Ciputra MBA ’88
Tim Dang ’80
Fung Der ’78, MBA ’79
Wenda Fong ’75
Michael Garrett ’67
Sheree Roxas-Chua Gotuaco ’90
Harun Hajadi MBA ’88
Irene Hirano-Inouye ’70, MPA ’73
Yosuke Honjo MBA ’98
John Iino JD ’87
Grant Imahara ’93
Sabrina Kay MBA ’05
Sidney Kanazawa JD ’78
Andy Lee ’93
Scott Lee ’81
Kenneth Liang ’83
Mitchell Maki ’82, MSW ’84, PHD ’93
Baldwin W. Marchack DDC ’71
Bryan B. Min ’86
Glenn Osaki MA ’87
Taryn Rose MD ’92
Haruki Rocky Seto ’99, MPA ’01
Jon SooHoo ’84
Debbie Shon ’74
Nita Song ’97
Garrick (Rick) Wang ’88
William Wang ’86
Karen Wong ’83, JD ’86
Oliver Wong ’76, MBA ’77
Gay Yuen PhD ’95
APAA Legacy Award
Sammy Lee MD ’47
APAA Distinguished Alumni Award
Justice Joyce Kennard ’71, MPA/JD ’74
Kenneth K. Miura ’54
APAA Service Award
Julie Benniardi ’91
Rebecca Branham MBA ’13
Tony Choi ’81
Bob Chong ’77, MBA ’79
Darren Chu ’84, DDS ’85 & Sandy Chu ’85
Frances Hashimoto ’66
Wandy and Larry Jung PharmDs ’77
Ysa Le PharmD ’94
Christine C. Lee JD ’79
Jennifer Lum ’82
Chuck Miwa ’88, MBA ’00
Melody Nishida ’78
Tae-Hyun Oh ME ’83, EdD ’91
Pranav Shah ’05
Bong-rak Sohn MBA ’86
The Hon. Michelle Park Steel EMBA ’10
Ben Wong ’73, PhD ’78
Debbie Wong ’75
Francis Yamazaki MD ’81
APAA Young Alumni Award
Justin Chon ’03
Jon M. Chu ’03
Sean Miura ’10
Ken Ochiai ’06
Justin Tandingan MPP ’14
APAA Corporate Leadership Award
Union Bank of California
Verizon
APASG* Award
Jae Min Chang
Edgardo de la Vega DDS ’71
Yoshi Honkawa ’55
David Hyun
Mary C. Takagaki
Carl Tamaki
Kenjohn Wang
The Honorable Delbert E. Wong
Wilbur Woo
Joselyn Geaga Yap
Do Ngoc Yen
APASG* Founders Recognition Award
Irene Hirano-Inouye ’70, MPA ’73
Kenneth Kasamatsu ’68
Alan Kumamoto
Dennis Kunisaki
Mary Kurushima
Frank Kwan ’71
Michael Matsuda ’82
Sarah Miyahira
Karen Wong ’83, JD ’86
APASG* Media Award
The Chinese Daily News
FM Seoul
The Korea Central Daily
The Korea Times
Korean Television Enterprises
KTAN
Nguoi Viet
The Philippine News
Radio Korea
The Rafu Shimpo
* Asian Pacific American Support Group (former name of the APAA)
