Mable Chan

Ms. Mable Chan

RSEA AM '93
2014 RSEA Alumni Panelist
Mable Chan is Founder/President of One in a Billion Productions Inc (501c3) a non-profit educational media group based in Cambridge, MA. It is a social enterprise with a podcast, blogs, and video profiles designed to give voice to underrepresented or misrepresented Asians in America. Beginning in 2019, One in a Billion also invests in or gives grants to independent documentary filmmakers who are Asians or Asian-focused. Currently, Chan is the host and executive producer of "One in a Billion" podcast. Previously, she was a producer for ABC News Good Morning America specializing in breaking news, parenting and health stories. She has also produced for Dateline, NBC News, and received top journalism awards including the Edward R. Murrow, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia, and the George F. Peabody for investigative reporting on insurance fraud, and breaking news coverage of the 9/11 attacks from Ground Zero. Prior to her American network career, Chan served as principal anchor and correspondent for Hong Kong Television Broadcasts (HK-TVB) reporting on student protests in China, refugee exodus from Vietnam, Pol Pot survivors in Cambodia, the plane crash in Thailand. A graduate of Harvard University with a master’s degree in Regional Studies East Asia, Chan remains an “Associate-in-Research” at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard. A native of Hong Kong, she is the only member of her family to become a naturalized U.S. citizen. She is also an advanced classical piano student at the New England Conservatory (Evening Division), a yogi, a practicing novelist, and a film investor.

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