Steve Nguyen (born December 30, 1985) is a Vietnamese American director, writer, producer, and co-founder of channelAPA.com.

Since 2005, Nguyen has made appearances as a young actor on network television programs and films such as Las Vegas, Scrubs, Freaks and Geeks, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Jarhead, and The Man Show.

In 2009, Nguyen directed and produced a short documentary film titled "The Making of a Memoir" in collaboration with Vietnamese author Lac Su in order to promote his HarperCollins published memoir, I Love Yous Are For White People. The documentary helped Su gain national exposure and has been featured on CNN,NPR, the Saigon Broadcasting Television Network, and KSCI.

In 2010, Nguyen directed YouTube singer-songwriter Megan Lee's music video for her first official single, "Love, Laugh, & Live," which was featured at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, San Diego Asian Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

Nguyen is directing and producing an animated film, Hibakusha, which chronicles the early life of Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, Kaz Suyeishi. The film stars Karin Anna Cheung, Daisuke Suzuki, Jane Lui and William Frederick Knight as the lead voice actors. The film is dedicated to the American Society of Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors for nuclear disarmament and will be released on the 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, August 6, 2012.

Jaeson Ma (born November 11, 1980) is an American actor, musician, writer, and minister who is best known for his work as a pastor and Christian entertainer.

Jaeson Ma was born on November 11, 1980 in Lubbock, Texas of Chinese descent. Jaeson was the youngest of three children. According to a CBN article of Ma's testimony, he had a difficult childhood in San Jose, California, and was involved in stealing and selling drugs. When the police showed up to Ma's house one day with a warrant for his arrest, Ma decided to "[get] his heart right with God" and "came clean of all his wrongdoing". Following his conversion, Ma served as a minister, church planter, and writer before becoming a Christian entertainer.

Ma went on to earn degrees in Bible theology, business management, and youth ministry. Ma has ministered on various college campuses including San Jose State University and UCLA.

Ma is best known for his work as a Christian rap musician, actor, and pastor. Zoe Li, a CNN reporter, referred to Ma as the "world's most prominent Asian hip-hop pastor, travelling the globe and spreading the Christian word of God through music".

Jane Lui is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Northern California.

Lui grew up in Hong Kong and at the age of 12, she moved to the United States.

Her musical influences include Tori Amos, Kate Bush, and Björk. She has opened for Jason Mraz, Jim Bianco, Kate Earl, Vienna Teng, Tom Brosseau, and others. In 2004, she started her solo career. Since then, she has released three albums.

Lui has a degree in music education from San Diego State University. She is classically trained in piano and voice.

Justin Roberts writes positively about Lui, describing her vocals as "sultry" and "candlelit". On Barkentine, the San Diego Troubadour notes the originality of her album.

For her performance of Below at Kollaboration 9 in Los Angeles, Ernie Hsiung describes Lui as a "...stand out performer..."

Carl Choi (born March 6, 1968^{[citation needed]}), also known as Catch, is an American entrepreneur, producer, and talent manager. Graduating from the University of Southern California, Marshall School Of Business, he has held senior positions with Andersen Business Consulting and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. He is no longer the CEO of Plan C Group, Inc. as of June 2011. He owns his own independent record label original called Catch Music Group (or simply Catch Records) but now Catch Adventures. The record label has signed artists including Far East Movement and more recently MC Jin, Jaeson Ma, Van Ness Wu, Joseph Vincent and Toestah.

Choi is known for his work with Asian American representation in the media, and his focus on the Asian American market is said to have sparked a growth in the awareness for the Asian American community.

In 2001, Choi became a close friend and later developed a business management relationship with Jin (rapper). Choi also managed a well-known Asian American music group in the United States called Far East Movement (2003–2010) and was instrumental in signing the group to Cherry Tree / Interscope Records.

Beau Sia (simplified Chinese: 谢福源; traditional Chinese: 謝福源; pinyin: Xiè Fúyuán, born 1976) is an American slam poet.

Sia was born in Ohio. He is of Chinese-Filipino descent. Raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sia discovered spoken word poetry on MTV as a teenager. When not participating in his high school's swim team, he spent time at Oklahoma City's only open mike night.

In 1995, Sia moved to New York City, where he attended the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts dramatic writing program. He has said that moving to New York made him conscious of his identity as an Asian American, something that he denied often in Oklahoma City. His cultural identity became a common theme in his poems.

Sia began performing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, eventually earning himself a place on the 1996 Nuyorican National Poetry Slam team. That same year, he would be filmed for the documentary SlamNation. The film followed Sia and his Nuyorican teammates (Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore and muMs da Schemer) as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam. The team would go on to place third in the nation, and have a lasting impact on how people would view slam poetry. In the book Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, author Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz wrote of Sia's impact, noting