Born and raised in various provinces in south China, Yuan spent most of her early adulthood in the US Midwest and East Coast before settling (for now) in Beijing to write about China’s NGO sector. She received her undergraduate degree from the Missouri School of Journalism and her master’s from the Columbia Journalism School. A former reporter for China Daily from DC and for an AI publication from Boston and New York, she’s particularly interested in the intersection of different beats — tech, climate, food, travel, culture, gender issues, etc.