Publications

This is where I’ll link to my writing which may be in the form of publications, Medium articles, or a link to my separate poetry/prose blog.

NBC News

  • NBC Asian America - ChatGPT is Taking Over Immigrant Kids’ Least Favorite Chore: Translating For Their Parents

  • NBC Asian America - 'The Bachelorette' fans are excited to finally see religious diversity

  • NBC Politics - 8 Million Teens Are Newly Eligible to Vote This Year. Meet the High-Schoolers Ensuring They Do.

  • NBCU Academy - Brands Paid Garment Workers 3 Cents Per Piece — Until These Organizers Stepped In

  • NBCU Academy - Eldest Daughters of Immigrants Can Feel Burdened. This Club Is Helping Them Empower One Another.

  • NBCU Academy - How Designers Are Transforming Shelters Into Beautiful, Welcoming Spaces

  • NBCU Academy - How Art Therapy is Alleviating Health Care Workers’ Burnout

  • NBCU Academy - The After-School Skateboarding Program Teaching Students How to Fall and Get Back Up

  • NBCU Academy - Building a Women’s Weightlifting Movement, One Campus at a Time

  • NBC Academy - The Navajo’s Fight to Protect Water On Their Own Terms

  • NBCU Academy - How Yurts Are Protecting an Unhoused Indigenous Community

  • NBC Asian America / NBCU Academy - Guam’s Only Maternity Ward Is Vulnerable to Climate Disasters. Meet the Indigenous Doulas Providing an Alternative.

  • NBCU Academy - The Latino Students Building a Pipeline Into Hollywood

  • NBC Latino - Bans on diversity, equity and inclusion may halt Latino progress in higher education

  • NBCU Academy - How Students Led a Historic $25M Divestment from LA School Police

  • NBCU Academy - The Sourdough Baker Creating Stability for People in Recovery


Freelance Essays/Articles

  • Salon - The Desirability of Being “Half Asian Chris” in Didi (September 2024)

  • Briarpatch Magazine - Are You North or South Korean? (CNF Essay Contest Winner, July 2024)

  • The Daily Beast - The Oscars Were Right to Snub Beyond Utopia (Jan 2024)

  • The Rumpus - This is Not a Story About Sobriety (Nov 2023)

  • Going - Seoul: The Asian Capital Where K-Pop and Confucianism Mingle (Oct 2023)

  • NBC Asian America - 70 years later, Koreans are still working to formally end the Korean War (July 2023)

  • Salon - "Past Lives" and my family know the true role of that almost mythological first love (July 2023)

  • Huffington Post - I Was So Excited to Watch Beef—But David Choe Ruined It For Me (April 2023)

  • NBC Asian America - Asian American Creatives Say Disclosing Their Layoff News to Family Can Be Complicated (Jan 2023)

  • CNET Money - If You Can’t Afford the Cost of Therapy, It’s Not Your Fault (Dec 2022)

  • Harper’s Bazaar - I Had Korean Double Eyelid Surgery at 18. I Look Back Now with Regret (Nov 2022)

  • Delish - My Mom’s Son-Mat Reminds Me That Home Is Where The Heart Is (Oct 2022)

  • Salon - “Pachinko” told me what my grandparents couldn’t about the life of colonized Koreans in Japan (May 2022)

  • Rock Paper Radio / Slants Foundation #AZNxBLM - Interracial On-Screen: How two filmmakers are making sense of their own Black and Asian experiences through art (May 2021)

  • Electric Literature - The Hybrid Korean-English Language of “Minari” Makes It Feel Like Home (April 2021)

  • Business Insider - 250 million farmers in India are striking (Jan 2021)

  • Business Insider - Affirmative action is on the ballot in California (Oct 2020)

  • TIME - The History Behind California’s Battle Over Ethnic Studies (Sept 2020)

  • Zora - A Non-Whitewashed History of the 19th Amendment and Women’s Right to Vote (Aug 2020)

  • New York Times - Modern Love Column - Tiny Love Stories (May 2020)

  • Slate - Harvard affirmative action lawsuit and Asian-American discrimination (August 2018)

  • Medium post on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and his sexual assault accusers (Sept 2018)

  • Daily Trojan article on China’s censorship of feminism (May 2017)

  • Daily Trojan article on the effects of Trump’s foreign aid gag rule on reproductive health services (May 2017)

  • Daily Trojan interview on the mass molestations in Bangalore (Jan 2017)

  • Daily Trojan article on gender inclusion in climate change negotiations (Nov 2016)

  • Daily Trojan article on lack of representation in student literature reading lists (Nov 2016)

  • Daily Trojan interview with Trump supporters at USC (Oct 2016)


Additional Publications