2010 Honoree
Wenda Fong, FOX V.P. Of Alternative Entertainment (oversees American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Hell's Kitchen)

Wenda Fong is a well-respected producer and director of television and live events with a remarkable track record as an executive and community force.  Wenda can claim credit on over 200 television programs ranging from all-star variety specials, award shows, live spectaculars, sitcoms, talk shows to documentaries.  Wenda is co-founder and Chairperson of the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and has served as President of East West Players.  She is a member of the Directors Guild of America and is founding co-chairperson emeritus of the DGA Asian-American Committee.  Wenda joined FOX as its first Vice President of Creative Diversity Development Department in 2001 where she created and launched its successful diversity initiatives.  In 2003, she was promoted to Vice President of Alternative Entertainment and presently oversees American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Hell’s Kitchen and the NAACP Image Awards.

2010 Honoree
Mike Shinoda, Musician (Linkin Park), Visual Artist

Michael Kenji Shinoda, a Japanese American musician, record producer and artist from Agoura Hills, California - best known for his vocal and musical endeavors with two-time Grammy-winning, multi-platinum rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda oversees the packaging, print and online art for the band and is also involved in other projects including Fort Minor, Music For Relief, and Projekt Revolution. Shinoda was the youngest of his graduating class from Art Center College of Design in 1998 with a B.A. in Illustration, where he has created a fund in his name to benefit promising illustration and graphic design students with financial need. His museum shows Glorious Excess (Born) and Glorious Excess (Dies) opened at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in 2008 and 2009, and this year he’ll curate a collaborative group show in New York City.

2010 Honoree
PIXAR Animation Studios

Pixar Animation Studios is an Academy Award ®-winning computer animation studio. Up won Golden Globe Awards for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. More recently, the film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, making Up only the second animated film in history to receive such a nomination, following Beauty and the Beast in 1991. It was awarded with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score in 2010. Pixar's objective is to combine proprietary technology and world-class creative talent to develop computer-animated feature films with memorable characters and heartwarming stories that appeal to audiences of all ages. Pixar is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.  Accepting on behalf of Pixar will be Production Designer for Up, Ricky Nierva. Ricky joined Pixar Animation Studios in May 1997.  He was the lead character designer for Monster's Inc. and the character art director for the Academy Award-winning feature Finding Nemo. Ricky most recently completed working as the production designer on Disney Pixar’s Academy Award-winning feature Up.

2010 Honoree
Jordan Nagai, Actor, Voice of Russell in Disney Pixar's "UP"

Jordan Nagai started his acting career at around one and a half years old. He first appeared in First Five, a PSA commercial. He has done print work for companies such as Pacific Care and JC Penney. Jordan was attending his Saturday Japanese school when the principal sent out a notice for the audition of Disney Pixar’s "Up". After several auditions Jordan got the role of “wilderness explorer” Russell.  Jordan had a great time working on this film.