Author Archives: Zara Zhang

Zara Zhang is a student and aspiring journalist at Harvard University. Her writings have been published on The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Magazine, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, and China Personified. She grew up in Changchun, a city in northeast China, and received her secondary education in Singapore. At Harvard, she is a Senior Story Editor at The Harvard Crimson and the President of Harvard China Forum, the leading student-run China conference in the world. She is currently a reporting intern at The Information, writing stories on China’s tech industry. She can be reached at zara.r.zhang@gmail.com.

Bill Clinton defends Hillary Clinton’s honesty at Asian American town hall forum

Trying to swat away complaints that Hillary Clinton is not trustworthy, former president Bill Clinton told a group of Asian Americans in Las Vegas Friday that only his wife could be trusted to ensure that “you and everyone else who ...

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Speak up to succeed, Asian American female newsroom execs say

Most people don’t associate the word “quiet” with S. Mitra Kalita. The 39-year-old Indian American is known for her bold and splashy ideas — from hiring a Black Twitter reporter to sending a Taylor Swift fan who happens to be ...

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Trump commentary on Asians roils even GOP members

At the Republican National Convention, New Mexico delegate Lisa Shin declared Donald Trump as the only presidential candidate that could protect the American dream. But the daughter of South Korean immigrants and founder of Korean Americans for Trump said in ...

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AAJA’s 2017 National Convention bound for Philadelphia

Next year’s AAJA convention will be in the City of Brotherly Love. The event will most likely be held in downtown Philadelphia, according to David Limm, the Philly chapter’s AAJA national board representative, who was briefed on the decision.

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