Donor Wall of Fame — 2025
AsAmNews is proud to announce this year’s inductees into the AsAmNews Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame.
Each of these readers is being recognized for their tax-deductible donations to support our staff and contract workers, to expand our offerings as well as to improve our news coverage.
Your donations can be made via debit or credit card, Venmo, Google Pay, PayPal or ACH through this link.
Those who prefer to mail a check from their bank or donor advised fund should make the check out to Asian American Media Inc, the 501 (c) (3) that publishes AsAmNews. Our mailing address at 440 N. Barranca Avenue #8117, Covina, CA 91723
Asian American Media Inc, the non-profit that publishes AsAmNews 365 days a year, has been approved by the IRS as a 501c3. That means your donations are now tax deductible.
Contributions through this link are being accepted.
Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Gold Members
$100,000 or more
Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Silver Members
$50,000 or more
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Premier Super Elite Members
$10,000 or more
- AARP
- Institute for Non-Profit News
- Report for America: The GroundTruth Project
- Randall & Gale Yip
Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Premier Elite Members
$5,000 or more
- Intuit
- Deb & Dave Liu
- Lily M. Fan
Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Elite Members
$1,000 or more
- Satesh & Kamlesh Agarwal
- Asian American Journalists Association
- Daisy Chan
- Steve and Terri Chan
- Samantha Cheng
- Margaret Chin
- Christopher Chow
- Constance Chung
- Lam Consulting Group
- Jeffrey Hsi
- Barbara Emy and John Huang
- Kevin Lee
- Paul & Wendy Leung
- Dickson Louie
- Frank Mah & Jeannie Young
- Dave Liu & Lauren Wu
- Victoria Pao
- Renaissance Charitable
Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Super Premier Members
$500 or more
- Jane Chin
- Raymond Chong
- Edwin Lee
- Patty Fong
- Levi Strauss Foundation
- Rudy & Kim Lin
- Vanita Louie
- James Umino
- Germaine Wong
- William Schick
- Mona Lisa Yuchengco
- Linda Young
Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Premier Members
$100 – $499
- Ravi Chandra
- Connie Chang
- Erin Chew
- Rowena Chow
- Ronald Chong
- Clarisse DaSilva
- Cheryl and Daniel Dulas
- Katheryn Fong
- May Hashimoto
- Edward Iwata
- James Hom & Tina Okawa
- Alvin Ho
- Linh Hoang
- Don Joe
- Ken Kashiwara
- Steve Kawai
- Kane Koo
- Bonnie Kwong
- CN Le
- Christopher & Tori Lee
- Jeanine Lee
- John Lee
- Terrence Lee
- Diana Leong
- Nancy Leong
- Dottie Li
- Jessica Lim
- Yvonne Liu
- Randall Lowe
- Daniel Gonzales
- Jesse & Deneen Moises
- Marlowe Ng
- Rakuten
- Kazuya Sato
- Masako Takahashi
- Steve Tamanaha
- Virginia Tong
- Jonathan Wen
- Winston Wu
- Allen Yang
- Virginia Yee
- Melmie Young
- Breene Yuen
Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame Supreme Members
$45 – $99
- Anonymous
- Robert Aranoff
- Serena Chen
- Lee Daniels
- Linda Doon
- Samantha Fiske
- Laurie Fong
- Bailey Franzen
- Theresa Hom
- Pei-te Lien
- Peggy Lore
- Mary Morris
- Karen Ng
- Michelle Oyakawa
- Helen Chin Schlichte
- Stephanie Westnedge
- Edward Wong
- Eric Wong
- Sabrina Wu
Bad Ass Asian Wall of Fame
$20 – $44
- Robert Aranoff
- Lonnie Bottino
- Reginald Chun
- James Fong
- Harold Kameya
- Mei Jue Lai
- Michael Lent
- Robert Lee
- Will Leong
- Priscilla McGuire
- Kathy Pucci
- Graciano Politan
- Mary Sanders
- David Shin
- Gary Szelc
- Terry Tang
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