When you think of MTV, the acronym may conjure up images of bronzed guidos from Jersey Shore, tanned Beverly Hills socialites from The Hills, or pregnant teenagers from Teen Mom.
Would you associate Asians?
Perhaps you remember SuChin Pak, the tough-as-nails reporter who would bring viewers MTV News and recent updates on the world outside of music during broadcasts of the beloved Total Request Live daily countdown. Well, aside from her, you wrack your brain and quickly point out the current music take-over by Asian/Asian American sensations like Far East Movement, Bruno Mars, and Charice. And hey—wasn’t there some interview with Jay Chou during promos for The Green Hornet?
Or maybe that was another channel.
Well, Sanyee Yuan, a current junior at Harvard University and San Francisco native—who associates herself with her pan-Asian mix of Taiwanese, Shanghainese, Vietnamese, and Filipino roots—is hoping to become the newest face at mtvU. In a recent college correspondent search for a student to report on the red carpet at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards this June, several students posted up homemade 30-second videos in hopes of getting enough votes to make it to the Top Five. Yuan, the only Asian American face in the crowd, has made it to the Top Five and now just needs your vote to be the one woman standing on the red carpet come June.
You can vote here.
Voting ends this Friday, May 20 at 11:59 EST so show some love and help her out! No online registration is required and you can vote as many times as you’d like.
Vote Sanyee Yuan for mtvU’s 2011 MTV Movie Awards Correspondent