Emil Guillermo
Emil Guillermo is an American print and broadcast journalist, commentator and humorist. His column, "Emil Amok", appeared for more than 14 years in AsianWeek—at one time, the most widely read and largest circulating Asian American newsweekly in the U.S. The column has now migrated to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund site blog. He is especially known for being the last press reporter to speak with Ronald Ebens about the death of Vincent Chin.
Early life and education
Born in San Francisco, Guillermo is an alumnus of Harvard University, where he studied history and film, and was a member of the Harvard Lampoon. He delivered the Ivy Oration as class humorist in 1977.Career
From 1989 to 1991, he was host of NPR's All Things Considered. He was the first Asian American male, and first Filipino American, to host a regularly scheduled national news broadcast. He has also worked as a television reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. He has hosted his own radio talk show in Washington D.C., San Francisco and Sacramento. His writing and commentary has been widely published in newspapers around the country, and has earned him national and regional journalism awards.From 1995 to 2010, He wrote weekly "Emil Amok" columns in Asian Week.
In 2010, Guillermo began writing the blog for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
In 2015, Guillermo received the Asian American Journalists Association's Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights & Social Justice, in recognition of excellence in coverage of Asian American Pacific Islander civil rights and social justice issues,
He began performing a collection of monologues based on his life stories called "Amok Monologues." His first performance was in 2015 at The Marsh in San Francisco. In 2016, he began touring Fringe Festivals with his show, starting in 2016.
Guillermo is the author of Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective—a compilation of essays originally published in Asian Week—that won an American Book Award in 2000.