Wenda Fong  CAPE Co-Chairperson, Vice President, Alternative Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company

Wenda Fong is a well–respected producer and director of television and live events with a remarkable track record as an executive and community force. While still an undergraduate at USC, she began her career as producer and host of her own live talk show series and later continued hosting and producing community affairs programs for many Los Angeles TV stations.
She is credited on over 200 television programs ranging from all–star variety specials, award shows, live spectaculars, talk shows, documentaries and sitcoms, including four Emmy telecasts and seven specials with Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush and Clinton. In addition, she has launched productions around the world, in China, Canada, Africa, and Europe.

Ms. Fong is co–founder and co–chairperson of CAPE, the Coalition of Asian
Pacifics in Entertainment and has served as president of East West Players ,
the nation’s oldest Asian American theatre. A member of the Directors Guild of America since 1980, Ms. Fong serves as founding co-chair of the DGA Asian-American Committee.

She joined FOX as its first Vice President of Creative Diversity Development Department in 2001 where she created and launched its successful diversity initiatives. In 2002, she was appointed the project coordinator for American Idol, in addition to her diversity responsibilities. In 2003, she was promoted to her current position of Vice President of Alternative Entertainment for FOX Broadcasting Company overseeing series and specials including American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Hell's Kitchen, NAACP Image Awards, Emmy Awards, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef and the upcoming X Factor.