Anna Song

 Anna Song likes dogs.
 
A lot.
 
Especially cute ones.
 
She's also an award-winning reporter-anchor at KATU, who's won an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting and an Emmy for a news series on a homeless teen.  She just noticed her name on a flier in the KATU lunchroom the other day, while scarfing down some Cup O' Noodle; it had the number "10" after it, meaning she's been at this longer than she realized, but not as long as those who had "26" and "32" after their names. 
 
Anna has a passion for helping kids in need.  Recently, she co-founded the Bald Faced Truth Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to inspire joy and growth in area youth through the support of the arts, education and athletics.  Its motto?  Help us help you.  The idea?  She wants all kids to have the same opportunities she had while growing up in northeast Portland's Parkrose school district.  (Go Broncos!) 
 
Playing sports (softball, volleyball, cheerleading), learning musical instruments (saxophone, bass clarinet, piano), and fostering creativity (choir, drama, newspaper) were all activities that shaped who she is today.
 
She's about to begin learning the Paso Doble so she can dance for the Assistance League's fundraiser in November with her fiancé.  And she has a cello that's quickly becoming furniture due to her lack of instruction on how to play it.
 
Cooking?  Not her forte.  Neither is cleaning. 
 
She doesn't run marathons.  Or knit.  Or go on long bike rides.  She does own a bike, which has been ridden exactly one time since purchase.  She likes to share her story, with anyone who cares to listen, about how she grew up running a motel with her mom on Portland's Sandy Boulevard.  It's still there, the Prestige Inn.  Anna gave the business its new name, and designed the current signage when she was 11.
 
She does love to travel.  She's been to her native country of Taiwan twice.  She attended Pepperdine University on an academic scholarship and lots of financial aid.  During the summer of her junior year, she interned at KATU and basically slept at the station, she worked so much.  Upon graduating, she was about to start her television reporting career in Midland, Texas when KATU called up and offered her the chance to return.
 
10 years fly by...some days slower than others.
 
But most of all, she just likes dogs.
 
And yet, she doesn't have one.