To watch as Gong hosts “Ginny’s” is to view an original….a down to earth empathy and an exceedingly easy
rapport with her guests….
To watch as Gong hosts “Ginny’s” is to view an original….a down to earth empathy and an exceedingly easy
rapport with her guests….
Selected by Montgomery Community Television as the "2017 Host of the Year"
Welcome to "Ginny's... where East meets West...and a slice of eastern philos ophy becomes a part of western thinking.
Television should reflect all the facesof the community.Programs focusing on the Asian American community and appealing to an English speaking audience were lacking. Viewing Asian Americans as personable, inter esting, articulate in a wide range of professions is critical in seeing Asian Ameri cans not as stereotypes but as individuals with similar hopes and dreams.
| Episode # | Guest 1 | Guest 2 | Guest 3 | Production Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Flordelino Lagundino / Founder, Tsunami Theater | Belkis Leong-Hong / Former Deputy Director, DOD | - | 06/29/99 |
| 02 | Asian Pacific Islander Students | - | - | 08/17/99 |
| 03 | Asian Pacific Islander Students | - | - | 08/17/99 |
| 04 | Asian Pacific Islander Parents vs.Students | - | - | 08/17/99 |
| 05 | Phoebe Eng / Author, "Warrior Lessons" | - | - | |
| 06 | Montgomery Hom / Filmmaker, "We Serve With Pride" | Franklin Odo / Scholar, Asian American Studies | - | 08/17/99 |
| 07 | Patrick Hiroshi Okura / Civil Right Activist | Jon Melegrito / Filipino Civil Right Activist | - | 08/17/99 |
| 08 | Marhyland State Delegate Kumar Barve | Tom Tran / President, Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association | - | 11/29/99 |
| 09 | Alain Nu / Magician | Tom Tran / President, Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association | - | 11/29/99 |
| 10 | Gordon Aoyagi / Fire Administrator, Montgomery County | Alan Cheung / Former Member, Board of Education | - | 11/29/99 |
| 11 | Frank Wu / Professor of Law, Howard University | Greg Chen / Director, DC Mayer's Office for Asian Pacific Islander Affairs | - | 02/22/00 |
| 12 | Jeremy Wu / Former National Ombudsman, Department of Energy | Arnold Lee / Tai Chi Master | - | 02/22/00 |
| 13 | Macy Lu / Feng Shui Specialist | Kathy Dress / Feng Shui Believer | - | 02/22/00 |
| 14 | Joe Ichiuji / 442nd Regimental Combat Team | Eric LaChinca / Filipino Veteran | - | 12/03/02 |
| 15 | Bo Thao / Hmong Community Activist | Mohammad Siddique / Pakistani Community Activist | - | 12/03/02 |
| 16 | Samuel Mok / CFO, Department of Labor | Michelle Yu / President, MCCPTA | - | 09/26/02 |
| 17 | Jhoon Rhee / 10th Degree Black Belt | - | 04/26/00 | |
| 18 | Lena Sun / Jounalist, Washington Post | Seema Chauhan / Bone Marrow Transplant Advocate | - | 04/26/00 |
| 19 | Honorable Norman Mineta / Secretary, Department of Transportation | Norman Ikari / Member of 442nd Battalion, WWII | - | 04/26/00 |
| 20 | Shamina Singh / Executive Director, White House Initiative on AAPIA | Eric Nee / Maryland State Attorney's Office | - | 06/26/00 |
| 21 | Hiroshi Nakazawa / Maryland Governor's Commission on Asian Pacific Islander Americans | Mitra Basu / Maryland Governor's Commission on APIA | - | 06/26/00 |
| 22 | John Young / Physician, Geneticist | John Yim / Sports Artist | - | 08/08/00 |
| 23 | Joan Rebecca Taylor-Siregar / Art Director, Tsunami Theater | Steve Shih / Judge, Actor | - | 08/08/00 |
| 24 | Al Uy / Police Officer, Montgomery County | Michael Lin / Chair, Maryland Governor's Advisory Committee on Asian Pacific Islander American | - | 08/08/00 |
| 25 | Henry Lee / Dentist | Edward Chun / Orthodontis | - | 10/18/00 |
| 26 | Patti Yu-Hussein / Partner, Garrett Yu-Hussein | Sach Gupta / President, National Council of Asian India Association | - | 10/18/00 |
| 27 | KAI / Singing Group | - | 12/03/00 | |
| 28 | KAI / Singing Group | - | 12/03/00 | |
| 29 | Min leong / Director, Montgomery County Public School Student Services | John Fugh / Retired Major General, U.S. Army | - | 02/07/01 |
| 30 | Fred Pang / Former Assitant Secretary for Personnel, Department of Defense | Linda Tse / Librarian | - | 02/07/01 |
| 31 | Ben Wu / Republican Congressional Staff | Jin Sook Lee / Executive Director, APALA | 02/07/01 | |
| 32 | Peter Mehlert / Assistant Professor, American University | Chuan Liu / Physics Professor, University of Maryland | - | 06/21/01 |
| 33 | Mark Keam / Community Activist, Attorney | Art Wu / Deputy Director, House Committee on Veteran Affairs | - | 06/21/01 |
| 34 | Joy Cherian / Former EEOC Commissioner | Donna Shimoda Hollingshead / Montgomery County Public School Principal | - | 08/21/01 |
| 35 | Jeffrey Fong / CAREN Founder | Ned Li / CCACC Founder | - | 08/21/01 |
| 36 | Nancy Zhang / Montgomery County Public School Student | Christina Li / Montgomery County Public School Students | - | 10/23/01 |
| 37 | Sarabjeet Saluja / Founder, SikhEducation.com | Aman Sidhu / Sikh American Activist | - | 10/23/01 |
| 38 | Sumita Bhandari / National Asian Pacific American Leadership Consortium | Ka-Ying Yang / Southeast Asian Resource Action Center | - | 10/23/01 |
| 39 | James Song / School Construction Manager | George Woo / School Security Manager | - | 03/03/02 |
| 40 | Linda Ngo / "Amerasian" Business Owner | George Dang / Business Executive | - | 03/03/02 |
| 41 | Jennifer Morimoto / Fire Fighter | Ron Dhindsa / President, Maryland Leadership Workshop | - | 03/26/02 |
| 42 | Jackie Bong-Wright / Author, "Autumn Cloud" | May May Au-Huie / Entrepreneur, Petroleum Industry | - | 03/26/02 |
| 43 | Dorothy Chiu Lee / Obstetrician, Gynecologist | Warren Minami / Chair, National Japanese American Memorial Foundation | - | 03/26/02 |
| 44 | Christine Chen / Executive Director, Organization of Chinese Americans | Gale Awaya McCallum / Project Director, Gates Millennium Scholars Program | - | 05/15/02 |
| 45 | Sonny Izon / Independent Filmmaker | Phil Nash / Activist & Online Campaign Strategist | - | 09/26/02 |
| 46 | Paul Igasaki / Former EEOC Vice Chair | Brian Kim / Montgomery County District Court Judge | - | 03/11/03 |
| 47 | Muriel "Mimi" Hom / Founder, Opera International | Robert Kwok / Founder, Chinese American Music Society | - | 03/11/03 |
| 48 | Anthony Goh / Wushu Martial Artist | Linda Weidman / Parent of Babies from China | - | 05/21/03 |
| 49 | Nguyen Minh Chau / Community Activist | Raj Chawla / Coach-Mentor-Mentee | - | 05/21/03 |
| 50 | Olivia Chung / College Student | Haniee Chung / College Student | - | 06/16/03 |
| 51 | John Eng / Plastic Surgeon | Eun Kim / Business Owner | - | 06/16/03 |
| 52 | Jay Chen / Asian Fortune | Shu-Ping Chan / Montgomery County Asian American Liaison | - | 09/29/03 |
| 53 | Walter Hsu / Construction Company Owner | Chuck Crisostomo / Assistant Director, County Regional Service Center | - | 09/29/03 |
| 54 | Mike Caporusso / Vietnamese/Italian | April Osajima / Japanese/German/Swedish | - | 10/08/03 |
| 55 | Tara Leaman / African Vietnamese American Adopted into European American Family | Keith McAllister / Vietnamese/Vietnamese Adopted into Caucasian Family | - | 10/08/03 |
| 56 | Anne Namba / Fashion Designer | - | 11/20/03 | |
| 57 | Stuart Ishimaru / EEOC Member | - | 11/20/03 | |
| 58 | Paula Lin / Journalist | Ellen Lin / Hotel General Manager | - | 03/23/04 |
| 59 | Jayne Park / Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC) | Sovan Tun / President, Cambodian Buddhist Society | - | 03/23/04 |
| 60 | Hwa-Wei Lee / Chief, Asian Division, Library of Congress | Juanita Tamayo Lott / Statistician Researcher | - | 05/25/04 |
| 61 | Dana Tai Soon Burgess / Choreographer, Dancer | Rita M. Gerona-Adkins / Senior Writer, Asian Fortune | - | 05/25/04 |
| 62 | Bruce Yamishita / "A Most Unlikely Hero" | - | 10/18/04 | |
| 63 | John Yang / APA Legal Resource Center | Angela Washington-Bivens / EEO Officer for Montgomery County | - | 10/18/04 |
| 64 | Jennifer O'Brien / Fashion Boutique Owner | Patti Li / Bubble Tea Store Owner | - | 11/16/04 |
| 65 | Bill Kang / Captain, Department of Fire and Rescue Services | Lt. Kevin Kim / Fire Rescue Services/Paramedic | - | 11/16/04 |
| 66 | Azeezaly Jaffer / Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications, USPS | Gordon Aoyagi / Director, Montgomery County Department of Homeland Security | - | 01/26/05 |
| 67 | Jami Gong / Comedian, Activist | Wayne Lum / David Wong Support Committee | - | 01/26/05 |
| 68 | Larry La / Restaurateur | Yu Sheon / Restaurateur | - | 03/22/05 |
| 69 | Julian Orteyza / Dyslexartist | Janelle Hu / Director, APIA Vote Coalition | - | 03/22/05 |
| 70 | William Hou / Attorney, Poker Enthusiast | Lisa Hasegawa / Executive Director, National Coalition for Asian Pacific Community Development | - | 08/16/05 |
| 71 | Noel "Sonny" Izon / Producer | Sam Wong / Author | - | 08/16/05 |
| 72 | Dr. Yong Tang / NIH Fellow | Neil Horikoshi / Executive, IT Company | - | 10/05/05 |
| 73 | Wai-Ling Eng / Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Board Member | Jeremy Mo / Boy Scouts | - | 10/05/05 |
| 74 | Nuzaira Azim / Writer, Reporter, Columnist | Eric Jensen / Founder, Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans of Virginia | - | 11/05/05 |
| 75 | Sophia Saeed / Child Prodigy | Alex Saeed | - | 02/23/06 |
| 76 | Mil Arcega / TV Reporter | Laura Chin / Community Activist | - | 02/23/06 |
| 77 | Lily Lee / County Resident | Jasdeepinder Sidhu / Student, University of Maryland at Shady Grove | - | 10/11/06 |
| 78 | Lily Lee / County Resident | Jasdeepinder Sidhu / Student, University of Maryland at Shady Grove | - | 10/11/06 |
| 79 | Yun Jung Yang / Montgomery County Commission on Women | Martha Nguyen / Montgomery County Commission on Women | - | 11/08/06 |
| 80 | Gary Mar / Professor, University of Stony Brook | Martha Nguyen / Montgomery County Commission on Women | - | 11/08/06 |
| 81 | HIRO / Performing Artist | Veronica Li / Author, "Journey Across the Four Seas" | - | 03/14/07 |
| 82 | Michael Lin / Executive Director, Organization of Chinese Americans | Floyd Mori / National Director, Japanese American Citizens League | - | 03/14/07 |
| 83 | Bill Wong / Journalist | Flo Oy Wong / Multi-Media Artist | - | 05/30/07 |
| 84 | Larry Shinagawa / Director, Asian American Studies Program, UMCP | Michael Lin / Executive Director, Organization of Chinese Americans | - | 05/30/07 |
| 85 | Penny Yao / AFI Theater | Apollo Teng / Manager, Georaphic Information Systems, Montgomery County | - | 08/15/07 |
| 86 | Xiaoming Tian / Acupuncturist, Alternative Medicine | Apollo Teng / Manager, Georaphic Information Systems, Montgomery County | - | 08/15/07 |
| 87 | Phil Peng / Opera Singer | Sister Cecilia Nguyen / Teacher of Religion, Humanitarian | - | 02/13/08 |
| 88 | Matt Finucane / Outreach, National Education Association | Julie Koo / Executive Director, DC Mayor, Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs | - | 02/13/08 |
| 89 | Christina Hsu / 2nd Place in the Amazing Race | Julie Koo / Executive Director, DC Mayor, Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs | - | 04/14/08 |
| 90 | Fred Quan / Technology Consultant | Officer Ken Hahn / Police Recruiter | - | 02/13/08 |
| 91 | Pearl Chin / Executive Director, Chinatown Manpower Project | Scottie Siu / Hall of Honoree, UMCP | - | 06/05/08 |
| 92 | Eddie Leong Way / Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, UCSF | Myron Quon / Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center | - | 10/29/08 |
| 93 | Larry Shinagawa / Director, Asian American Studies Program, UMCP | Ginny Gong / Author | - | 10/29/08 |
| 94 | Uma Ahluwalia / Montgomery County Director of Health and Human Services | Pradeep Ganguly / Montgomery County Director of Department of Economic Development | - | 02/11/09 |
| 95 | Amara Jade / Community Outreach Director, Asian and Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project | George Wu / Executive Director, Organization of Chinese Americans | - | 02/11/09 |
| 96 | Thang Dinh Nguyen / Executive Director of Boat People SOS | Rosie Abriam / President and CEO of the Center for APA Women | - | 04/22/09 |
| 97 | Terry Shima / Executive Director, the Japanese American Veterans Association | Lily Qi / Montgomery County Executive's Liaison to the APA Community | - | 04/22/09 |
| 98 | Diane Hibino / President, League of Women Voters | Corinne Dan / Fellow, Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) | - | 06/03/09 |
| 99 | Grant Hirabayashi / Merrill's Marauders Ranger | Kurt Lee / Marine Veteran | - | 06/03/09 |
| 100 | Richard On / O.A.R. Lead Guitarist | Kurt Lee / Marine Veteran | - | 07/09/09 |
| 101 | NONE | - | ||
| 102 | Vivian Yao / Legislative Analyst | Usa Bunnag / Entrepreneur, Humanitarian | - | 07/09/09 |
| 103 | Phil Nash / Director, Folklife Festival | Juanita Tamayo Lott / Author, "Filipinos in Washington DC" | - | 01/27/10 |
| 104 | Angela Lagdameo / Founder, APA Democratic Party of Maryland | Diane Vu / Executive Director, Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association | - | 01/27/10 |
| 105 | Jane Nishida / Chair, Maryland Governor's Commission on APIA | Hoan Dang / Community Activitist | - | 03/10/10 |
| 106 | Ngoc Chu / Commnity Activist | David Lee / Director, Maryland Governor's Ethnic Commissions | - | 03/10/10 |
| 107 | Joyce Chung / Georgetown University | Lisa Horowitz-Wang / Cofounder, Swab a Cheek, Save a Life | - | 05/12/10 |
| 108 | Kurt Chew-Eer Lee / Korean War Veteran | - | 05/12/10 | |
| 109 | Philip Wang / Deputy Director, NIMH | - | 08/04/10 | |
| 110 | Michael Lin / Chair, Board of Trustees, Montgomery College | Sandi Tun / Director, Burmese American Collective | - | 08/04/10 |
| 111 | Michael Lin / Chair, 1882 Project Steering Committee | Ted Gong / Co-Vice Chair, 1882 Project Steering Committee | - | 03/30/11 |
| 112 | Jeff Oleen / Nascar Racer | - | 03/30/11 | |
| 113 | Esther Paik Goodhart / Comedian | - | 06/08/11 | |
| 114 | Virginia Ng / Mother of a Transgender Male | - | 06/08/11 | |
| 115 | Cyjo / Fine Art Photographer | Mim Lising / NIH Multicultural Health Educator | - | 08/24/11 |
| 116 | Eddy Zheng / Community Activist | Mim Lising / NIH Multicultural Health Educator | - | 08/24/11 |
| 117 | Alexander Lock / Bus Hobbyist | Gopal Dorai / Economist and Author | - | 10/06/11 |
| 118 | Ned Li / CCACC | - | 10/06/11 | |
| 119 | Komelia Okim / Art Professor | Akiko Keene / Kimekomi Doll Maker | - | 01/18/12 |
| 120 | Svetlana Kim / Author | James Song / Director, MCPS Division of Facility Management | - | 03/14/12 |
| 121 | Jinhee Kim / Family Finance Extension Specialist | - | 03/14/12 | |
| 122 | Ben Friedman / Teen Entrepreneur | Amanda Weidman / Student | - | 06/06/12 |
| 123 | Wen Hsu / Co-Owner, Maryland Table Tennis Center | Barbara Wei / Table Tennis Champion | - | 06/06/12 |
| 124 | Daphne Kwok / Community Advocate | Corky Lee / Photographer | - | 10/31/12 |
| 125 | David Kim / AARP Vice President for Outreach | Veronica Li / Gay Right Advocate | - | 10/31/12 |
| 126 | Song Hutchins / President, Asian American Homeownership Counseling, Inc. | - | 12/05/12 | |
| 127 | Ted Li / Physician | Justin Pastorfield Li / Student | - | 12/05/12 |
| 128 | Mee Moua / President, Asian American Justice Center | Dotti Li / Editor in Chief, Asian Fortune | - | 01/30/13 |
| 129 | Winnie Chan / Co-Founder and President, MAYLÁN Skincare | Alan Chan / Chief Operating Officer, MAYLÁN Skincare | - | 01/30/13 |
| 130 | Yi Chen / Documentary Filmmaker | Wallace Lee / Chinese Youth Club | - | 05/01/13 |
| 131 | Danny Shin / Service Center Owner | Jack Huang / Maryland Table Tennis Center Coach | - | 05/01/13 |
| 132 | Sonny Izon / Independent Filmmaker | Jack Huang / Maryland Table Tennis Center Coach | - | 09/11/13 |
| 133 | Tony Taguba / Retired Major General | - | 03/05/14 | |
| 134 | John Pak / NASA Program Analyst | Helen He / Chinese Community Leader | - | 03/05/14 |
| 135 | Joe Howard / National Ballroom Dance Champion | Helen He / Chinese Community Leader | - | 06/04/14 |
| 136 | Kyung (Kathryn) Dickerson / Family Law Attorney | Amy Quan / Optometrist | - | 06/04/14 |
| 137 | David Lim / September 11 Hero | - | ||
| 138 | Jenny Cho / Independent Filmmaker | Andrew Horos / DC Police Officer | - | |
| 139 | Donna Hollingshead / MCPS Associate Superintendent | - | ||
| 140 | Surjeet Ahluwalia / Executive Director, Asian American LEAD | Bear Hunter Lee / High School Tennis Player | - | |
| 141 | Eric Nee / Associate Judge, District Court of Maryland | Sach Takayasu / President & CEO, Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ACE) | - | 02/04/15 |
| 142 | Todd Endo / Civil Rights Activist | - | 02/04/15 | |
| 143 | Lasantha Dahanaike / Human Resources Specialist, Montgomery County | Grace Denno / Manager, Office of Procurement, Montgomery County | - | 09/02/15 |
| 144 | Brian Gong / Addiction Therapist | Dr. Carol Baltazar / Mother of Teen with Asperger's Syndrome | - | 09/02/15 |
| 145 | Suzanne Kim Doud Galli / Facial Plastic Surgeon | - | 10/07/15 | |
| 146 | Alex Aust / Director, Finish Line Lacrosse | Aruna Miller / Maryland State Delegate | - | 10/07/15 |
| 147 | Karen Narasaki / Commissioner, Commission on Civil Rights | - | 03/02/16 | |
| 148 | Teresa Lee Wu / Executive Director, Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation; Rockville Chinese School | Weiping Chen / Principal, Hope Chinese School, Potomac Campus | - | 03/02/16 |
| 149 | Lt. David Lee / Montgomery County's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Jonathan Ho / Organization of Chinese American (OCA) Program Manager | - | 05/11/16 |
| 150 | Sandra Lee Kawano / Business and Community Leader | - | 05/11/16 | |
| 151 | Dr. Cho Yi Wong / Periodontist | Sonny Segal / CIO, Montgomery County, Maryland | - | 09/21/16 |
| 152 | Honorable Lillian Sing, Retired Judge / Co-Chair, Comfort Women Justic Coalition | Sonny Segal / CIO, Montgomery County, Maryland | - | 09/21/16 |
| 153 | Dr. Leslie Moe Kaiser / Advisory Council, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Lily Liu / AARP Brand Story Advisor | - | 12/07/16 |
| 154 | Henry Chang / Author | Lily Liu / AARP Brand Story Advisor | - | 12/07/16 |
| 155 | Neel Saxena / Executive Director, Asian American LEAD | Julie Yang / President, Chinese American Parents Association of Montgomery County | - | 01/11/17 |
| 156 | Daphne Kwok / AARP, VP for Asian Multicultural Markets & Engagement | - | 01/11/17 | |
| 157 | Eric Quan / Product Manager, Exercise Fanatic | Janelle Wong / UMCP Asian American Studies Program Director | - | 03/29/17 |
| 158 | Joanne Lee / Mother of Transgendered Sons | - | 03/29/17 | |
| 159 | Sharon Wong / OCA National President | I.K. Ho / China Medical University in Taiwan | - | 04/26/17 |
| 160 | Robert Wells / Author, Voices from the Bottom of the South China Sea | Joyce Chan / Chinese American Maritime History Researcher | - | 04/26/17 |
| 161 | Marianne Brackney / Korean American Women's Society | - | 06/21/17 | |
| 162 | Hoan Dang / Community Organizer | Ari Ghosal / Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland | - | 06/21/17 |
| 162 | Hoan Dang / Community Organizer | Ari Ghosal / Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland | - | 06/21/17 |
| 163 | Mike Herrera / Oracle Band | Veronica Herrera / Oracle Band | Nikki Herrera / Oracle Band | 11/16/17 |
| 164 | Celestino Almeda / Congressional Gold Medal Recipient | John Melegrito / Executive Secretary, FilVetREP | - | 11/16/17 |
