Pamela Burdman is an award-winning journalist and former newspaper reporter. She has written extensively about education, immigration, California politics, and Asian affairs. Her freelance articles have appeared in the New York Times, Lingua Franca, Salon, the Far Eastern Economic Review, California Journal, National Crosstalk, Black Issues in Higher Education, and Oregon Business. She was a staff writer for seven years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered higher education (including the University of California’s rollback of affirmative action), immigration (including Proposition 187), Asian affairs (including the U.N. World Conference  on Women), and federal law enforcement (including the Unabomber and the Oklahoma City bombing). She received numerous awards, including the prestigious Livingston Award for young journalists, for “Bitter Voyage,” her 1994 series of articles on the smuggling of Chinese immigrants into the United States. She has also served as Associate Producer for Media Matters, a public television show about the media and taught journalism at City College of San Francisco.