• MAJOR: Social Science Research
• COLLEGE: Princeton University

You wear your race...

My thinking is informed by my lived experience as a first generation American and Chinese American, with my family history of diaspora, loss, assimilation and becoming. These stories serve as the basis of my work and advocacy, using my second language to tell stories of a first home.

I see my involvement in journalism as a means to bring disenfranchised peoples’ stories to the forefront–to amplify the voices that most often go unheard.

I hold onto my name as a keepsake, a living souvenir of my birthplace. Of course, I've adopted "American" mannerisms and cannot divorce this more established second home from my identity, but my name is something I could hold onto. It is a first impression, a memory. Others can assume my identity through olive skin and crescent eyes, but my name was mine.