She is the daughter of a Chinese entrepreneur who, together with his Filipina wife, built and established a clothing manufacturing business, supplying ready-to-wear merchandise to several leading Philippine department stores.
So was an accomplished media practitioner in the Philippines where she had a six-year print and broadcast journalism career, which includes coverage of top local and international events such as: As a courtside reporter for Vintage Television, she covered the Philippine Basketball Association games from 1997–2003, while also covering other basketball leagues - NCAA, PBL.
So moved to the United States in 2003 with her family, leaving behind a budding career as a sportscaster for the Philippine Basketball Association.
[citation needed] She completed a certificate course in journalism at UCLA and did freelance writing for Young Money and Audrey before coming to Kababayan L.A.
She received Honorable Mention from the Los Angeles Press Club at the 53rd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.