She previously reported for Quartz from Hong Kong. Before that she covered general news for Reuters in New York and Washington and reported from China for the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She holds a dual master’s degree in international affairs from the London School of Economics and Peking University, as well as degrees in English and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She won the 2014 Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for best international feature for a series about China’s water crisis.