Leonard Novarro, editor and publisher of ASIA, The Journal of Culture and Commerce, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and award-winning editor and journalist whose work has been published nationally and internationally. He has worked for major news organizations, including the Orlando Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, and Reuters News Service, covered the Asian American business scene for Asia Times and Asia Inc. magazine, co-hosted “Memphis Week,” a weekly television news show in Memphis, Tennessee, and has made numerous guest appearances on radio and television. He is the recipient of more than 50 major awards and citations in several fields, including health, the environment, law and diversity coverage, among them the prestigious H.B. Swope Award in feature writing and news reporting, the John J. Finney Award for public service and the National Institute of Human Relations Award for spearheading the “Faces of San Diego” multicultural series of stories as features editor of the San Diego Tribune. In 1976, he was part of a team that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for uncovering intolerable living conditions among Central Florida’s migrant farm laborers. Novarro is also a recipient of a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship awarded through the USC Annenberg School for Communication.     Rosalynn Carmen, co-publisher of ASIA, has had a diverse career in a number of fields, including newspapers, radio, teaching and cultural instruction. A native of Thailand and educated in Australia, she came to the United States more than 25 years ago to bolster her entrepreneurial spirit into a successful career selling real estate, a co-partnership in a Thai language publication called Business and Entertainment News and, three years ago, providing the impetus for founding ASIA, The Journal of Culture & Commerce, a highly successful English language publication serving Southern California’s diverse Asian community. In addition to reporting for several Thai newspapers in the U.S., she set a record for producing four radio shows reporting back to Thailand on trends and human events in the U.S., becoming a widely recognized radio personality known as “Dr. Rose.” Her strong social consciousness was evident in her work teaching prisoners in the California State Penitentiary system and for conducting seminars for the U.S. Navy to help serviceman overseas adjust to Asian cultures. Before co-founding ASIA with Len Novarro in 2002, Carmen was a regular contributor to Siam Chronicle, reporting on the Southern California’s Thai community.