Chenda Ngak
New York, NY
Chenda Ngak is a writer, editor and producer based in New York City. She’s currently the Branded Content Manager at The Weather Channel.
She has worked at Metro Newspapers, GamePro magazine, Star Wars Insider and CBS News. Her work has appeared on CBSNews.com, CNET, PCWorld.com, Yahoo! Shine, Nerve.com and Flixster.com.
She was part of the CBSNews.com team that won the 2013 Edward R. Murrow award and contributed to the Newtown tragedy coverage, for which CBS News won an Alfred I. duPont award.
The story of her family's escape from the Khmer Rouge and the process of assimilating into American society have been documented in the non-fiction books "To Destroy You Is No Loss" and "Bamboo and Butterflies: From Refugee to Citizen."