Andrew is a writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and a regular commentator on National Public Radio - All Things Considered. He co-founded New California Media, an association of 400 ethnic media in California.

His essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including the New York Times, The LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. He has also written essays for magazines like Mother Jones, The Nation, San Francisco Focus, Proult Journal, In Context, Earth Island Journal.

His short stories are also anthologized widely and taught in many Universities and colleges. A few of literary journals that publish his short stories are: Manoa Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod International, Michigan Quarterly West, Zyzzyva, Transfer Magazine, and many others.

Lam's awards include the Society of Professional Journalist Outstanding Young Journalist Award (1993), The Media Alliance Meritorious awards (1994), The World Affairs Council's Excellence in International Journalism Award (1992), the Rockefeller Fellowship in UCLA (1992), and the Asian American Journalist Association National Award (1993; 1995). He was honored and profiled on KQED television in May 1996 during Asian American heritage month.

Lam was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University during the academic year 2001-02, studying journalism.

He has a Master in Fine Arts from San Francisco State University and a BA degree in biochemistry from UC Berkeley.

He was featured in the documentary "My Journey Home," which will air on PBS nationwide on April 7, where a film crew followed him back to his homeland Vietnam.

Lam is working on his first short story collection.

Use of poll to find out what Vietnamese Americans are thinking (media love to cover poll)

Giving awards and funding to individuals (writers, film makers, journalists, advocates, scientists, etc.) who bring awareness of Vietnamese American concerns/issues to larger audience (media love to cover this too)

Writing for the media. Use existing media opinion editorial pages, radio commentaries that are open to the public to voice your concerns.

Creation of an anti-defamation league to deal with misinformation regarding Vietnam, Vietnamese-Americans, and so on.