USF Center for the Pacific Rim Announces the Yuchengco Media Fellowship Recipient

(San Francisco) - The University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim announced on May 1, 2006 the first   recipient of the Yuchengco Fellows Program for Young Professionals in the Media for Fall semester 2006.   The program is designed to support young Filipino journalists of accomplishment and talent and provide an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the Philippine diaspora.

Mr. Jeremaiah Manuel Opiniano is a journalist and an advocate.   He is the president of the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) Journalism Consortium, a non-profit media-civil society coalition involved in migration journalism and executive director of the Institute for Migration and Development Issues, an organization that promotes migration and development approaches to benefit the Philippines.   Since November 2000, Mr. Opiniano has been teaching research methods and journalism subjects at the University of Santo Tomas.   He was previously a fellow for "Migration and Development Policy in the European Union" of the Freidrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Brussels.  

Mr. Opiniano holds Liberal Arts in Journalism and Master of Arts in Public Administration degrees from the University of Santo Tomas, and a Master of Professional Studies-Development Communication degree from the University of the Philippines Open University.   He has written numerous articles and several books on the Philippine diaspora.

The Yuchengco Fellows Program for Young Professionals in the Media awards a stipend of up to $27,500 per semester to cover expenses including travel, lodging, room and board.

Deadline for applications for the Spring semester 2007 fellowship is August 30, 2006.   For more information on eligibility and application requirements, please call USF Center for the Pacific Rim at (415) 422-6357.

For more information, please contact:
Mona Lisa Yuchengco
(415) 422-6357 or
msyuchengco@usfca.edu