The International Examiner’s annual fundraiser dinner, the Community Voice Awards (CVA), highlights local change-making leaders and organizations. Rooted in expansiveness and resilience despite shifting challenges within the journalistic space, the IE celebrates this year’s CVA with a theme of ROOTED & RISING.

This year’s CVA will honor and celebrate:

• Ping Foong – Leadership in Arts & Culture
• Stan Shikuma – Lifetime Achievement Award
• Maria Abando – Leadership in Community
• Thanh-Nga “Tanya” Nguyễn – Leadership in Business
• Ken Mochizuki – Leadership in Journalism
• Nurhaliza Mohamath – Tatsuo Nakata Leadership Award

As the only only nonprofit ANHPIA (Asian Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander American) media source in the Pacific Northwest, the IE grows every year with more coverage of timely issues that are important to the community, despite being in a city where many local publications have shuttered.

This year’s CVAs takes place on October 23rd at the Diamond Bay Restaurant in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. Tickets cover an intimate experience with a delicious 9-course Chinese banquet meal, an awards ceremony, and an evening in conversation with other like-minded supporters of local journalism.

For more information visit https://iexaminer.org/community-voice-awards/