Collin Tong is a correspondent for Crosscut News and University Outlook magazine, and Seattle-based stringer for the New York Times.  Prior to his current journalistic work, Collin was senior director of communications for Washington State University, visiting lecturer at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at WSU, and public affairs director at the Alliance for Education. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand, taught East Asian History at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco, and was a member of the National Peace Corps Association board of directors.  A former Michele Clark Fellow at the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education's 1976 Summer Program for Minority Journalists, he is the recipient of awards from the Washington World Affairs Council, Fund for Journalism on Jewish Life, Washington Press Association, and Council for Advancement and Support of Education.  In 2012, Collin received the University of Redlands' Distinguished Alumni Achievement Service Award.  He is the author of Into The Storm: Journeys With Alzheimer's, which will be published in January 2014.  He serves on the International Service Committee of the Rotary Club of Seattle, advisory committee for the nonprofit global health organization Village Health Works, and Chancellor's Advisory Council for Seattle Community Colleges.