Chairman

Mr. Daniel H. Deng

Daniel H. Deng started his reporter career when he first worked for David Horowitz, A well-known consumer reporter, as a research intern for the “Fight Back with David Horowitz” program in Channel 4, K-NBC. Later he joined Los Angeles Times, San Gabriel Valley Edition as a community correspondent, covering events in the Chinese community for the Times.

After working for the mainstream media for over one year, Mr. Deng changed his beat and started working as a journalist for the Chinese press in Southern California. He first started at International Daily News. One year later, he was recruited to join Chinese Daily News (aka World Journal), the largest Chinese newspaper in Northern America. His beats included mainstream politics, Chinese-American politics, police, court, business, immigration and others.

While working in the daytime, Mr. Deng went to Whittier Law School at night, and finished his law school in three years. After he received his Jurist Doctor degree, he took California State Bar examination and passed it at the first attempt in 1998.

Mr. Deng realized the great need in the immigrant community for quality criminal defense service, and therefore established his legal practice in 1998 with emphasis on criminal defense. Mr. Deng has worked with many world-renowned defense attorneys and forensic experts. He has taken extensive training from forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee. He teams up with six well-respected criminal attorneys, including Attorney Ray Fountain, Attorney Evan Freed who both are former prosecutors in Los Angeles area. Mr. Deng has also enlisted a group of experienced investigators who have worked as police investigators, and a group of world class experts. With the strong support team, Law Office of Daniel Deng has been recognized as one of the best Chinese defense law firm in the nation.

Mr. Deng is the President and CEO of the Law Office of Daniel H. Deng, which has provided legal services, specializing in criminal defense, in the Chinese Community in Greater Los Angeles area since 1998. Mr. Deng is one of the best known Chinese defense attorneys in the United States.

Mr. Deng is an accomplished author. He wrote "Dr. Henry Lee, the forensic Expert" in 1998, which was published in Taiwan and became one of the bestseller books in Taiwan. A similar book on Dr. Henry Lee was released in October 2000 in mainland China. His new book “American Law 101, a Handbook for Everyone” was released on December 21, 2002, in the United States. “American Small Claim Court and DIY Guide”, and “American Traffic Law” were published in 2003, and 2004. These series of Chinese language publications have helped many immigrants to learn about American law.

Mr. Deng is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, and is a frequent guest on Chinese radios and televisions.

President

Ms. Jenny Qing Chen

Jenny Chen started her career as a journalist when she was 16 years old. She first started to work for Guangzhou Daily in China in 1972. She earned her MA degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984 and got her first job in the United States as a local Chinese newspaper reporter in New York. She was the first reporter coming from China to work in a major Chinese newspaper in the U.S. since U.S. established diplomatic relations with China in 1979. She covered the Olympic Games held in Los Angeles in 1984.

Jenny  started to work for the Chinese Daily News, the largest Chinese newspaper in the U.S. in 1990. Since 2003 Jenny became deputy city editor and later city editor at the newspaper where she had worked for 20 years. She has covered widely in the Chinese community on issues ranging from U.S.-China relations, U.S. relations with Taiwan, education, culture, real estate, etc.

Jenny has witnessed the growth of the Chinese population and the Chinese community in the past 20 years and has maintained a good relationship with the Chinese community, its media, organizations and people.

Executive Director

Mr. George Bao

George Bao is among the first group of journalists in China to be trained by American professors to write news stories in English following the Cultural Revolution. After graduating from the Graduate School of the Academy of Chinese Social Sciences with a Master’s degree in journalism, he was sent by China’s official news agency, Xinhua, to Washington, DC in 1984 as a correspondent to cover the United States. Bao moved to Los Angeles in 1991 and earned a second MA in Communication Management from the University of Southern California. For the past decade he has worked for the Chinese Daily News, the largest Chinese language daily in America, where his analysis of US–China relations has won wide acclaim.

George Bao left Chinese Daily News where he had worked for 16 years in 2009 and joined Xinhua News Agency as a special correspondent to contribute news analysis, features, roundups and in-depth reports.