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)
Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu - contributor (June 2023)
Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Microessays on Being in the World - contributor (Sept 2022)