Left, Juju Chang in her green card photo when she immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea. Right, Juju Chang in her kindergarten photo in the U.S.“The me on the left is me in my green card photo and the me on the right is my kindergarten photo,” Chang explained.
“I felt like most people around me didn't look like me and so I felt other,” Chang said. “As a kid, I would follow my father around as he was running errands for business and I remember watching him be emasculated or talked down to even as a young child.” “I think it speaks to the family values that my parents instilled in us and that I'm instilling in my kids,” she said. “Friends come and go, lovers come and go, but family is forever.”Juju Chang reporting at a Democratic National Convention when she first started her on-air career.
It was that realization that set her on the track to pursue a career in journalism. After several years of working as a news producer, Chang became on-air talent with ABC News, where she has covered breaking news events, politics and the Democratic National Convention in the '90s. “It’s not that anti-Asian bias didn’t exist before the pandemic, it most certainly did,” Chang said. “But in many ways it was unleashed and weaponized against the Asian-American community.”
Through her hard conversations with the Asian-American community, Chang did say she is hopeful for the future.
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