Esther Hwang is an American model, former Miss Asian America, and former scheduling secretary for San Francisco mayor Willie Brown.
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 Esther Hwang at Serramonte Center, 2010; © BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons |
Esther Hwang was born on January 10, 1974, in Seoul, South Korea. She immigrated to America at the age of one and grew up in Los Angeles’ Korea Town. In 1996, she won the Miss Asian America Pageant. She received a scholarship to UC Berkeley and graduated summa cum laude in 1997. Soon after, she joined the staff of Willie Brown while he was Mayor of San Francisco. Doing so substantially increased her web traffic and notoriety as a model.[1]
In 2006, she began working with North Beach Models. In 2007, she graduated from San Francisco Law School. Later that year, she filed a police brutality charge in San Francisco.[2][3] In 2008, Esther was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. She continues to work as a model as well as working with her charity, Pandora's Hope, for children in poverty and women with cancer.
References
edit- ^ SF Gate Thursday, August 27, 1998 Surfers caught in her Net - Elizabeth Fernandez
- ^ Fog City Journal May 23, 2007 Former mayoral secretary Hwang files police brutality civil rights lawsuit By Tamara Barak
- ^ SFist May 23, 2007 Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful by rita Archived 2016-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
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