Chapter Board

Co-President: Sue Stock

Sue is the retail reporter for The News & Observer in Raleigh. A Philadelphia native, she graduated from the University of Delaware with a bachelor's degree in English-journalism in 2001. While at Delaware, she was executive editor of the campus paper, The Review. Following college, she moved to Lansing, Mich., where she covered retail for the Lansing State Journal. She came to the News & Observer in December 2004. Sue has also been an active member of AAJA since college. While in Michigan, she helped found the Michigan chapter and is now serving as the Vice President-Print in North Carolina. Sue is also a Chips Quinn Scholar (Class of 2000) and an ASNE/APME Diversity Fellow. Most recently she won a first-place award in business writing from the North Carolina Press Association.

Co-President: Renee Chou

Renee is an anchor/reporter at WRAL, a local CBS affiliate. From 1998 to 2004, she worked for KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, IA, where she was the weekend morning anchor/reporter and then the weekend evening anchor/reporter. From 1997-1998, she was a general assignment reporter at KOMU-TV in Columbia, MO. Her awards include a first place in general news reporting in 2002 from the 2002 Iowa AP Broadcasters Association. In 2002, she was also a Cedar Rapids Women of Achievement Honoree. She has also won the following: 1998 Missouri Broadcasters Association -- First Place, TV Documentary; 1998 William Randolph Hearst Journalism Award Finalist. Her news philosophy is to tell a fair, accurate and balanced story in a clear and compelling manner so that you, the viewer, can take something from it (whether it be information, ideas, opinions, or emotions). She received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and her hometown is in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Vice President: Leo John

Leo has been Special Reports Editor at Triangle Business Journal since October 2007. Prior to that, he was a Staff Writer covering technology, biotechnology and utilities at the paper since October 2002. He received a Master's of Arts in journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a Bachelor’s in economics from St. Xavier’s College in India.

Secretary: Shirley Min

Shirley joined NBC 17 as a General Assignment Reporter in April of 2006. Previously, Shirley reported news and traffic for WB 22 and News 14 Carolina. She began her career in Philadelphia, reporting for the FOX and UPN affiliates. Shirley graduated cum laude from New York University, where she double majored in Broadcast Journalism and East Asian Studies.

Treasurer: Jeff Wang

Jeff is the owner and president of Lifestronics, Inc., located at Raleigh, North Carolina. Lifestronics is a consulting services provider specializing in information technology, corporate accounting services, and medical equipment wholesale/distribution. Dr. Wang served as a contract financial controller in several companies and organizations. Prior to starting up Lifestronics, Dr. Wang held various leadership and managerial positions in Nortel Networks, Lockheed Martin, MCNC, and Pacific Environmental Services. Dr. Wang received a M.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in atmospheric science from North Carolina State University; a M.S. in dynamic meteorology from Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China; and a B.S. in statistical climatology from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. Dr. Wang is also a certified project management professional (PMP) by Project Management Institute (PMI).

National Advisory Board Representative: Vicky Eckenrode

Vicky is the health reporter at the StarNews in Wilmington, where she has worked since 2007. Previously, she covered politics and state government for Morris News Service in Atlanta, where she served as the treasurer for the AAJA-Atlanta chapter. She worked for The Augusta Chronicle as a general assignment reporter, business reporter and eventually bureau chief for one of the newspaper’s suburban offices as well as news editor of The Columbia County News-Times, which the Georgia Press Association deemed best community paper in the state during her time there.