News anchor Lori Matsukawa is an award-winning journalist, author, and speaker who spent nearly 40 years at KING TV in Seattle. A trusted voice in Northwest media, she reveals how her childhood in multi-racial Hawai\u2019i and traveling the world as Miss Teenage America led to a career she couldn\u2019t imagine. Despite discrimination and disappointment along the way, Matsukawa became the role model she wished she\u2019d had. She helped change what viewers saw on the newscasts that entered their homes.<\/p>\n
Matsukawa pursued her career at a time when society expected little from a person like her: a female of color from a working-class family who attended Hawai\u2019i public schools. Yet, an astonishing series of events \u2014 highlighted by a year representing her country as Miss Teenage America during her senior year in high school \u2014 propelled her to keep breaking down stereotypes. Today, she continues to promote civic engagement and share stories to inspire the next generation of journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
News anchor Lori Matsukawa is an award-winning journalist, author, and speaker who spent nearly 40 years at KING TV in Seattle. A trusted voice in Northwest media, she reveals how her childhood in multi-racial Hawai\u2019i and traveling the world as Miss Teenage America led to a career she couldn\u2019t imagine. Despite discrimination and disappointment along the way, Matsukawa became the role model she wished she\u2019d had. She helped change what viewers saw on the newscasts that entered their homes.<\/p>\n
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