JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

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• Created and managing the first-ever online newspaper website since 1981
• Organizing editorial meetings and editing article drafts before publishing in print/online
• Created and managing the official social media account
• Establishing sponsorships and maintaining finance/business relations ($1,200+)

• 1 out of 30 students across the nation selected to participate in an all-expenses-paid-for multicultural journalism program (JCamp) in Washington, D.C., and attended the annual AAJA convention
• Learned to socialize, conduct MOS interviews, and short articles, and established a network of connections with reporters, anchors, and businessmen in the Asian American sphere

• Writes articles for personal column on community topics through high school student perspective

• Five-time feature on Chapel Hill Magazine
• Learned professionalism in the adult journalism world, social skills, social media, organization

• Led 40+ members to learn about and participate in documentary and film-making
• Mentored members to participate in the C-SPAN StudentCam documentary competition
• Donated Chinese cultural books to local elementary and middle schools to make the community more diverse with C-SPAN StudentCam prize money

• 1 out of 25 students across the nation selected to cover state-of-the-art biomedical research by interviewing researchers and writing science communication stories to be published in the cSw online student journal
• Awarded the full scholarship for the yearlong program

• Directed and produced a film about the importance of climate action selected to participate in film festival

• Researched and published research paper titled “On reactions to objectivity in print capitalism, yellow journalism, and fake news in social media.”

• Covered 2020 presidential campaigns, pandemic, and social justice movements in NC district
• Interviewed 100+ people and wrote 36 articles and contributions to Scholastic Inc.

awards & recognitions

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• StudentCam is C-SPAN’s annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think critically about social issues with 3000+ entries per year. 
• Recognized by NC Governor Roy Cooper, Senator Thom Tillis, and congressman David Price and congresswoman Valerie Foushee, and NC Representative Allen Buansi. 
• Awarded 5k+ cash prize.
• 1st place documentary “MONEY TALKS: Inside the Inflation Surge” in 2023. Aired on C-Span on April 18, 2023.
• Honorable Mention documentary “STAND AND DELIVER: Our Youth Voices” in 2022
• 2nd place documentary “US-CHINA: Survive or Thrive” in 2021. Aired on C-Span on April 13, 2021.
• 3rd place documentary “AMERICA: This Equality” in 2020

• 2025: 1 Gold Key (Art Portfolio), 1 Gold Key (Painting), 2 Silver Keys (Painting), 2 Honorable Mention (Painting)
• 2024: 1 Gold Key (Painting), 2 Silver Keys (Painting), 1 Honorable Mention (Painting) 
• 2023: 3 Honorable Mentions (Painting and Illustration)
• 2022: 1 Silver Keys (Illustration), 1 Honorable Mention (Painting)

• 2023: 1st place. Invited to the 2023 Award Reception at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Artwork was on exhibition in Cannon Tunnel at the US Capitol for 1 year.
• 2024: 2nd place, artwork currently on exhibition in Representative Valerie Foushee’s (NC-04) DC office1st place artwork currently on exhibition inside US Capitol in Washington, DC, from 2023

• 1 out of 1,300 high school seniors chosen from 105,000 (1%) across the country selected to progress in the 2025 Coca-Cola Scholars Program scholarship

• Awarded $1000 cash prize.

• Videos covering the neurobiology of eating disorders scored in the top 10% of 2,400+ global entries in 2023 and 2022.

• 1st place in the Broad Street Scientific Science Essay-Writing Competition for essay on remote sensing

Multiple Times Interviewed by Media, Local, State, National

• Netflix, Scholastic Inc., WRAL, CW22, Chapelboro.com, 97.9 WCHL The Hill, Chapel Hill Magazine, Chinese Headlines
• Named “Inspirational Women of North Carolina” by CW22 in 2021

social activities

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• 2 hours/week
• Lead volunteering and engagement events for local high school students
• Organized the first CHYC-hosted Chapel Hill Candidates Election Forum (2023)

• 1 out of 29 students across the nation selected to participate in providing feedback to Harvard School of Education’s Making Caring Common (MCC) project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Engages in monthly virtual meetings with other students and MCC board members

• Successfully proposed to school district board of education to recognize lunar new year as a school holiday
• Promoted multicultural diversity affecting 14k+ students and employees in Chapel Hill school district out of 64k+ residents of the town of Chapel Hill