Emerald Yeh, Chair

Emerald Yeh is an award-winning television journalist who served as an anchor for 19 years at KRON4 in San Francisco. During her tenure at KRON4, she received numerous national and local awards for her reporting, including nine Emmys. Emerald also led KRON4's Contact 4 unit with reports that examined consumer issues and provided problem-solving information. Her Contact 4 team received the Consumer Excellence Award from advocacy organization Consumer Action.

Emerald's nine Emmy awards are for "The Rape of Nanking," "Who Owns Your Health?," "Consumer Reporting 2002," "Consumer Reporting 2001," "Grandparents' Rights," "Skipper Lynn," "David Laird: Transplant Pioneer," and the documentaries "Children of Courage" and "Lost Childhood: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family."

Emerald also received three awards from Radio and Television News Directors Association for "Summer Camp: Children of Alcoholics," Best 30-Minute Newscast and "Holocaust Heroes." She also won an award from the Associated Press Television and Radio Association for the week-long series "Sudden Wealth."

National awards include a United Press International award for Best Feature, an award from the American Psychiatric Association for the documentary "Kids First: A Cry for Help," and one from the National Association for Children of Alcoholics for the documentary "Lost Childhood."

Other honors include the Women Who Could Be President Award from The League of Women Voters of San Francisco, an outstanding achievement award from the Golden Gate Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television, and the Woman Warrior award from the Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition.

Emerald has also received community awards from the State Attorney General, Youth Advocates, the Association of Children's Services, CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates for Foster Children), the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Asian Women's Shelter, Asian Perinatal Advocates, the Organization of Chinese Americans, Nihonmachi Legal Outreach, and the Chinatown Community Development Center.

In addition to being a founding board member of the Asian Pacific Fund, Emerald has served on the boards of the United Way of the Bay Area and the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco. She currently serves on the UCSF Wellness Lecture Committee and chairs the James Beard Foundation’s Broadcast Awards Committee

Prior to joining KRON in 1984, Emerald anchored for CNN in Atlanta. Before CNN, Emerald was weeknight anchor and co-producer of the nightly news program at KPTV, an independent station in Portland, Ore. She began her television career as reporter and weekend anchor at KITV, the ABC affiliate in Honolulu.

A graduate of the University of Hawaii, Emerald majored in journalism and minored in political science. She earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.