APCA Community Leadership Award

Lee Ann Kim
Journalist, and Executive Director – San Diego Asian Film Festival

Lee Ann Kim is an Emmy award-winning journalist for KGTV, the ABC station in San Diego, California where she currently anchors a daily 4 PM newscast and also field reports in the evenings. Awarded by Metropolitan Magazine as of San Diego's Top 40 under 40 and Best News Anchor by 944 Magazine, Lee Ann is one of the few Spanish speaking reporters at KGTV and is extremely active in the community. In 1999, she re-started the San Diego chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association and during her presidency, also founded the San Diego Asian American Film Festival. Today, she continues to serve as founding executive director of the Film Festival and Asian Film Foundation. Born in Seoul, she grew up in Chicago. Lee Ann is married and has two baby boys - one who is adopted from South Korea.