Immigrant of the Day: JuJu Chang (South Korea)

JuJu Chang (b. 1969 in Seoul, South Korea) is an Emmy Award-winning correspondent for ABC News' 20/20, Good Morning America, ABC News Now, Good Morning America's Weekend Edition, and Nightline.

From 1999-2000, Chang anchored the early morning newscasts of World News Now and World News This Morning. From 1998 to 1999 she reported primarily for World News Tonight, covering such stories as the bombings of United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Chang was based in Washington, D.C. from 1996 to 1997. Between 1991 and 1995 Chang served as a producer and off-air reporter for World News Tonight. She produced a series on women's health which won a duPont-Columbia Award. Her off-air reporting assignments included the 1992 presidential campaign and the Gulf War in 1991.

Chang won a Gracie Award for a PBS Now report on judicial activism and a Freddie Award for a series she hosted for PBS, The Art of Women's Health. She won another Gracie Award for a 20/20 story entitled Women and Science, a profile of the transgender neurobiologist Ben Barres.

Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a BA in political science and communications.

Chang is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation.

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