About Us

‘Resonate’ is Europe’s biggest East Asian culture website. As a news, entertainment and blogging website, ‘Resonate’ provides writers with a platform to discuss topics that strongly resonate amongst East Asian communities in the West. Our writers do not need to be of East Asian heritage but simply need to harbour an interest in writing about topics that concern East Asian communities around the world.
The representation of East Asians is unreasonably disproportionate within politics, the film industry, music industry and the media in general. For example, when East Asians are represented in the film, they are often represented through takeaway owners or martial artists. ‘Resonate’ aims to promote East Asian talent through the medium of written journalism and eventually film/television, photography and music in order to achieve a wider and more diverse media presence for East Asians.
‘Resonate’ actively encourages positive representation in the media by making your voice heard by delivering interesting articles from your own perspectives to actively engage wider audiences.
Our platform features a combination of regular columnists and special guest columnists from writers across the world writing about common Asian interests. ‘Resonate’ plays host to a hub of ideas to showcase the creative talents of the global East Asian community.
We are currently expanding our platform, so if there is any aspect/category/country that you feel is important to East Asian culture that we have not covered, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate your suggestions. We always welcome any comments (positive or negative, but mainly positive) regarding our site so please do get in touch!
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@weareresonate.com.
Staff & Contributers
Cohan Chew
Cohan has written for numerous publications including The Huffington Post, Seeking Alpha, Gigwise and Time Out Singapore. His aspirations include providing the East Asian community with a voice as well as being the proud owner of a Nando's Black Card.
Jun Kit Man
Having worked for over nine years for several China’s major television news channels including CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, Phoenix TV and Propeller TV, Jun has covered almost every major story in Britain and around the world including the Royal Wedding, London Olympics, and the Eurozone Crisis. He has worked with and interviewed many leading figures in politics, arts and the entertainment industry. Jun is an accomplished tv producer and likes to cover stories concerning foreign born East Asians. His main goal for Resonate is to give young East Asian creatives an opportunity to showcase their talents to a global audience.
Anonymous
Articles published under 'Anonymous' have been submitted with the writer's request to not disclose their identity. However, the author still retains the credit of the piece. If you would like to write for Resonate under Anonymous, please email us at info@weareresonate.com
Yinsey Wang
Yinsey is a full-time lawyer, a hobbyist model and occasional self-portrait artist based in the UK. Her creative work focuses on fine art and fairytales. She is interested in showcasing and celebrating unique stories of the East and Southeast Asian community. Co-founder of Instagram @enchantedasianday (inspired by Black Fae Day @blackfaedayofficial) with Bella Kotak and Lillian Liu, Yinsey hopes to share Asian creative talent and celebrate increased diversity in the fairytale and fantasy space. You can follow her journey at @tornandpolished on Instagram.
Abbi Clark
Abbi is a Chinese Studies student with the University of Nottingham. When she's not too busy crying over her essay deadlines, she's obsessing over her favourite singers and actors. She is highly interested in East Asian pop culture and its growing fanbase, with hopes to use Resonate as a platform to help East Asian film, television and music reach even wider international audiences.
Alex Chang
Alex is a British Chinese actor based in London. He trained at ALRA (Academy Of Live & Recorded Arts) in London. He has worked extensively as an actor in all mediums within the entertainment industry, moving effortlessly between stage, television, film, commercials and voiceover roles. Alex is also is the Co-Founder of Bridge The Moon Productions, a creative production company based in London with strong connections in the Los Angeles.
Alice King
Alice's curiosity of East Asian culture was fed by her History Degree at Kings College London, where she made modern Chinese History one of her specialisms. Inspired she bought a plane ticket to China to see for herself. Her backpacking trip took her through China, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Australia and North America. Now writing for Resonate she hopes to cut through stereotypes and use her personal experiences and historical expertise to give a more authentic voice to East Asian issues and culture.
Amelia Enberg
Amelia is a young advertising professional who is ready to flex her storytelling muscle. Born and raised in the Midwestern United States and living in Los Angeles, she is intrigued in exploring the relationship between her Indonesian-American identity and the global culture today. She has previously written for college publications and for her personal blog. Amelia hopes to share her perspective with the Resonate community and continue to find herself through writing, travel, and food.
Anson Ling
Anson is a Central Saint Martin's fashion and textiles graduate. She is also an avid film buff whose exhaustive film knowledge is unparalleled - if you've seen it, chances are she's seen it too. Anson is originally from Hong Kong but has lived in the UK for four years and is hoping to stay for the foreseeable future.
Ash Gandhi
Ash is an aspiring patent attorney with a particular interest in the East. Drawing from his time spent in Qingdao and Shanghai, Ash has developed an interest in Chinese culture. Based in the UK, he continues to immerse himself in Chinese culture by surrounding himself with British East Asian friends. He is also an unapologetically proud vegetarian and loyal fan of bubble tea.
Aurelius Zi
ZI is an ambitious college student with too much to create and not enough time to do it. She is midway through her journey at the University of Michigan and highly passionate about Asian American and global Asian issues. ZI believes in seeking beauty unfound and making her life as magical as possible. She hopes to share these ambitions with you while at Resonate.
Beanie Lei
Beanie was bitten by the storytelling bug as a child, but it took her years to write anything down because she talks too much. That's all changed, and she now writes in different genres. Find out more on https://about.me/beanielei.
Casey Tran
Casey was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area by Chinese refugee parents. She is an advocate for communities of color in the U.S., leveraging the power of stories to change law and policy. She studied Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies, and dabbled in journalism at UC Berkeley. She has been writing since she can remember, journaling her every insight or creating stories with talking animals.
BEATS
BEATS is an organisation founded by British East Asians working in Theatre and across the Screen industry. We seek to: humanise British East Asians and advocate for the use of the term British East Asian.
Choon Young Tan
Choon is a Social Media and Marketing Manager with a great deal of experience in writing and journalism, having written for a number of publications, his own personal blog "Tan's Topics", as well as fiction and poetry. Through his writing he aims to push boundaries and be an advocate for under-represented voices and groups, particularly Chinese, East Asian and LGBTQ people. Aside from his full-time job, Choon also volunteers as a Social Media Campaigner and Content Creator for UKFCP, a British-based non-profit organisation that aims to support Chinese and East-Asian owned businesses and professionals and champions the societal and economic impact they have in the UK and across East Asia.
Chor Man
Chor has been working behind the scenes in the Hollywood film industry for over 8 years. His list of credits include Mission Impossible: Rogue nation (2015), Thor: Dark World (2013), Exodus God and Kings (2014) and Maleficient (2014). He will write in the film section giving out his views on his life and in the film industry.
Xueting Christine Ni
Xueting Christine Ni's life has been an act of cultural translation. Dividing her life between London and GuangZhou, she has been promoting Chinese Culture and understanding for the past twelve years. A graduate in English Literature from QMUL (London), and Chinese Literature at CUN (Beijing), she has been delivering talks and creating articles and resources for those interested in China, as well as translating a range of works, from manhua to poetry and documentaries. She has published a book Chinese deities and also written for organisations such as Paper Republic, Radii China and the BBC. She is currently engaged in translating Chinese science fiction. She lives on the outskirts of London with her partner and many cats.
Claire Feeney
Claire is a Masters student at the University of Nottingham, studying Global Issues and Contemporary Chinese Studies. She fell in love with China after spending her 2nd year in Ningbo, and is working towards being fluent in Mandarin. Over the last summer she spent two months doing a marketing internship for an NGO called Blue Sheep in Chengdu. Currently Claire is a business and marketing intern for a Chinese business consultancy firm called UK Elite Business Club.
Cynthia Wei
Cynthia is a recent Journalism graduate from City, University of London. Originally from Beijing, she came to the West to study at age 14. Besides a passion for discovering untold stories in the world through writing, Cynthia also does ballet and loves to horse ride. She hopes to give ordinary as well as famous Asian people a voice by writing for Resonate.
David Netherwood
David has previously lived and worked in China twice, including at the UK-China Business Council. He is an advocate for China and Asia's growing internationalisation and civil society projects. Currently he lives in Berlin, Germany, and is involved with the tech, music and art scenes. At Resonate, he will be writing about tech, music, arts, sports, travel, and current affairs
David Tran
David was born and raised in the land of tractors and cider (Somerset). He has a strong science background being an Imperial College graduate and has spent time trying to cure kidney disease by pipetting stuff into other stuff before deciding on a career change. He wishes to use Resonate as a platform to write about some of his passions and interests which range from Hong Kong cinema to the exploration of cultural identity.
Dee Wu
Dee is a typical millennial Chengdu girl who loves spicy cuisine and laidback lifestyle. Born into a family of actors and musicians deeply influenced by the Franco-Russian culture, she has been curious of the hyphenated identity in our globalised world since tender age. With her love of British Dandyism, she decided to study in England after her bachelor’s degree. She is now doing her PhD on the Aesthetic Movement in the fashion and beauty industry. She has been writing since she can remember and now is working on the next Game of Thrones.
Erin Chew
Erin is a freelance writer who regularly contributes to Asian American pop culture blog YOMYOMF, which is owned by Star Trek and Beyond Director Justin Lin. Erin has experience in writing about social issues and politics, with her work featured in SBS Australia, Nee Hao Magazine, Asia Times Online and Huffington Post. Erin is the founder for the Asian Australian Alliance, which is a grassroots advocacy based network with its primary aim of advocating for the common interests of the Asian Australian community.
Evianne Suen
vianne Suen is a student journalist at City, University of London. She reports on human rights, identity, diaspora, freedoms (of press and expression) around the world as well as Hong Kong, where she calls home. In her free time, she's photoshopping herself into places she never got to visit or making TikToks on how to wear a mask. Her inboxes on Twitter and Instagram (@eviannesuen) are open to anything and everything.
Frances Fu
Frances Fu believes that people who use drugs are nice people, too. By day, she works to organize, educate, and empower Chinese immigrants in San Francisco Chinatown. At Resonate, she explores the intersection between the War on Drugs and Asian American culture, history, and politics.
Gabby Wong
Gabby is an Actor/ Writer and a Konglish third culture kid. Hong Kong born and British educated, she studied Politics with Economics at University of Bath where she became heavily involved with the student theatre. She then went onto train as an actor at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre. Her theatre credits include Royal Shakespeare Company, Duke of York's in the West End, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Shakespeare's Globe & others. On screen, she is most known as rebel pilot Gold Nine in Rogue One. She is also an alumni of Royal Court Theatre's Unheard Voices writers program.
James Spalton
James is a recent neuroscience PhD graduate from the university of Nottingham. He has a wide interest in all aspects of science. However after travelling to Japan he has a huge interest in Asian culture particularly of Japanese origin. A lover of much of nerd culture he is an avid gamer and film buff, he aims to use resonate as a platform to develop his writing skills and engage people in his passions.
Janine Palencia
Philippine-born Janine spent the majority of her childhood moving between Canada and the UK, resulting in a permanent state of confusion regarding true cultural identity. She currently calls Vancouver her home, where she studies business by day, and lives as a fangirl by night. If you listen hard enough, you’ll hear her in the distance, crying over her favourite celebrities.
Jaymee WINS
Jaymee is a former TV host in the Philippines, a global traveler and an inspirational influencer based in San Diego, CA. She shares her stories, learnings, and motivation on social media as a 40 year old Filipina finding her global voice in America. She created "Jaymee WINS!" as a positive self-reinforcement from a metastatic breast cancer diagnosis. She also hosts a podcast and YouTube show to inspire, uplift and empower you to "WIN Your Daily Battles" one step at a time, one day at a time.
Jennifer McGeever
Jennifer McGeever is a writer and unabashed dreamer. She has interned with Jimmy Choo in his legendary workshop and worked alongside the inimitable Caroline Issa at Tank Magazine. After working on the fashion desk for Singapore’s biggest women’s magazine she now resides in her hometown London and hustles in a freelance capacity as a fashion journalist. She runs StyleishSubstance.com, a space for women who inspire in their being, not just their doing and explores the power of style in partnership with substance. She is a proud part of the Colour Sisterhood which helps practically support and encourage women all around the world and also proudly Malaysian-Chinese! She loves to dance (whether in the club or a class), laugh freely & often and spend time in conversation with those she loves. Catch up with her @j_wenghan or @styleishsubstance on Instagram.
Jessie Huang
Jessie is a Googler and NYC denizen hailing from Los Angeles, California. With parents from Taiwan, she's developed a keen interest in the general effects of growing up in America as a first-generation being. Jessie has written for publications such as Geek Legacy, The Earthbound Review, and her own personal blogs. Her favorite word is "frisson" and she is fascinated by nootropics and neuroscience.
Joie Ha
Joie Nikita Ha is an Asian American millennial living in the USA. As the daughter of a refugee, she carries on her shoulders the hopes and dreams of her family that crossed the ocean for a brighter future. Her loves include social justice, hip-hop advocacy, and cultural anthropology. Her greatest accomplishment is completely filling out her passport with colorful visas from over 10 countries. She thinks animated cats in space are adorable and can eat pho nearly everyday.
Jubilee Pham
Jubilee is Journalism major at Biola University who strives to be as cool as her X-Men counterpart. A Vietnamese-American born in California, raised in Mongolia, and (partially) educated in Taiwan, her life has been a confusing journey that has also blessed her with a unique perspective on the world around her. In writing for Resonate, Jubilee hopes to provide thoughtful commentary on pop culture, Asian American representation, Christian faith, mental health, and beyond. Jubilee is also a writer for Odyssey, a social platform that showcases the diversity of millennials. Her hobbies include playing the guitar, baking, loving her dog, and stressing over fictional characters.
Julie Ae Kim
Julie is a NYC based community organizer and writer. She is passionate about immigrant inclusion, Asian American feminism, and politics. She is working on her MA in Women's and Gender Studies and is on the board of National Asian Pacific Women's Forum (NAPAWF) NYC Chapter.
Ka Man Mak
British-born Hong Konger residing in Oslo, Norway. Works at Oslo Edtech Cluster and in the spare time, freelances as a documentary photographer and journalist. She has a Master in Environmental Geoscience. Determined not to allow her limited Norwegian to prevent her from heading into media and communication, she plunged herself into projects and gained priceless experiences. Made numerous publications in newsletters, magazines and Norwegian newspapers. Interested in edtech, women in migration, cantonese language, alternatives to capitalism and asylum policy.
Kate Chan
Kate is passionate about good design, culture clash, pop-culture trends and just wearing lots of black. She writes in-between design projects as she finishes up her final year at Goldsmiths. Having lived in Hong Kong, Sydney and London, life as a non Cantonese speaker in a traditional Hong Kong family gives rise to a multitude of quirks and complex politically correct topics. Nonetheless, this matcha obsessed, PS junkie is the epitome of a multicultural art millennial.
Katelyn Hemmeke
Katelyn is currently a U.S. Fulbright Junior Researcher based in Seoul. Her research focuses on Korean transnational adoptees' experiences with birth family search and reunion. She earned her M.A. in English literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Katelyn is enthusiastic about anything involving traveling, ice cream, and/or K-pop.
Kew Lin
Kew Lin is a visual effects artist by passion writer by necessity and director by self-defence. He has made a number of films in the Singapore and London that have been officially selected at film festivals worldwide. Kew combats writer’s block with an overnighter’s clock. He also plans to travel the cosmos, starting with this planet.
Lai Wa Wu
Lai Wa Wu is the Lead Youth Organizer for Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) and their Youth Movement of Justice and Organizing (Youth MOJO) and Gender and Sexuality Diversities (GSD) programs. CPA educates, organizes, and empowers low income and working class immigrant Chinese adult and youth communities to build collective power with other oppressed communities and demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people. Through grassroots political education and campaign organizing, we work on social issues affecting our youth such as health justice, education justice, immigration justice by empowering folks to work towards positive change in our communities. Prior to CPA, Lai Wa organized with other groups including Asian Pacific Environmental Network in East Bay, AFSCME's Child Care Providers United, and Student Immigrant Movement in Massachusetts.
Lerah Mae Barcenilla
Born in Manila, Philippines, Lerah is an English graduate from the University of Leicester. She writes about music and films at Metro, Culturefly, UnitedKpop and BeatCraze Events. Most of the time she writes about fictional worlds - her current dream is to publish a collection of short stories or a novel.You can usually find her highly-caffeinated self idly scribbling on a notebook in hipster coffee shops, admiring South East Asian poetics or taking photographs of cherry blossoms.
Lilian Tsang
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Lilian moved to UK seven years ago to pursue her acting career. A self-confessed food addict, she’s the annoying person that demands photos to be taken before every meal. She would like to share her passion for food on Resonate and discover hidden restaurant gems for our readers!
Louisa Ling
Louisa is a British-born Chinese Malaysian with a case of the diasporic blues. As a result, she likes to explore how the displacement of East and South East Asian identities is presented in film and literature. Having grown up on a steady diet of action movies, fantasy, and comics, she also enjoys picking Hollywood apart when they get Asian representation wrong, and being pleasantly surprised when they get it right. She has previously written for MELANINCollective and Thought Catalog.
Louis Leung
Louis Leung is a proud self-published author who enjoys writing novels that revolves around controversial Asian-American themes that normally wouldn't be accepted by mainstream publishing. He champions Asian-American-related arts and believes in the importance of unity and support among Asian-American creative talent. He also hosts a podcast called Being Asian on Youtube and wastes way too much time on Twitter (@ricedaddy7).
Lucy Sheen
Actor, writer, filmmaker, who was made in Hong Kong and exported to the UK as a transracial adoptee in the late 50s early 60s. Her first ever acting role was the female lead, Elaine Choi in the Brit feature film Ping Pong (1987). Lucy has received writing commissions from The Royal Court Theatre, Paines Plough/Tamasha TC and Nimble Fish Arts.
Merlene Emerson
Originally from Singapore, Merlene came to UK as a law student, worked as a Solicitor in the City before retraining as a mediator. She is currently Chair of a housing association, and divides her time between politics and philanthropic work. She received an MBE in June 2016 for ‘political and public service’.
Nuala Gathercole Lam
Nuala Gathercole Lam is mixed race British-Chinese. She was born and grew up in the UK and has studied and worked in China as an adult. She is currently studying for an MSc in Media, Communication and Development at the LSE. At resonate, Nuala writes about issues of race, class and gender in China and the UK. She is particularly interested in the ‘othering’ of China and Chinese people in the UK media.
Olivia Thompson
Olivia Thompson is studying Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, England, and is currently embarking on a year abroad in Ningbo, at the University of Nottingham’s own China Campus. Although her knowledge of Chinese is still a little rusty, she hopes that focusing on mandarin and having first-hand experience of Chinese culture and tradition, will help her in understanding the country from an inside perspective, after all, living and breathing China, must be the best way to study it! From a small town in the Charente region of France, she hopes to share the difficulties, the joys and the excitement of her year long trip with all who are interested in travel or study in China.
Paris Wong
Born and raised in Texas, Paris Wong is currently a Media Production major at the University of Houston and film critic at The Writers Block. As an aspiring screenwriter, she hopes to create art that celebrates diversity, and through which she can share her experiences as a half Chinese, half Hispanic woman in today’s America. Passionate about superheroes, social issues and media representation, she believes everyone has a lead role in life; there are no extras here.
Qing Na
Qing dived into journalism after completing a degree in Accounting and leaving China for England to pursue her passion three years ago. She started freelancing with China Minutes a year ago, where she explores her identity as a Chinese overseas by telling stories of Chinese and East and Southeast Asians in the UK. She's also been a vegetarian for eight years and a K-Drama addict. If she's not writing or on social media, she's probably binge-watching Korean dramas.
Rachel Tam Hau-Yu 譚巧瑜
Rachel has worked with Ming-Ai (London) Institute, Black Cultural Archives and the Soho CCC. She is primarily interested in stories of migration, conflict, loss and love; questions and applications of community development today; global & local histories and education. She sharpened her teeth as an actor-writer-organiser with Yellow Earth, NYT, the Fringe and at St Andrews, where she studied English literature. Born in Kent, and raised in a thoroughly British Chinese chippy and two takeaways, her natural habitat is among words, her second habitat the sites where family meals were spun.
Remy Yin
Remy Yin is an Asian American currently residing in New York City, USA. He is an actor, cinematographer, musician, rock climber, and activist who strives to promote the art of all forms. As the son of two immigrants, he makes it his mission to have their stories heard. He believes in impacting the world whether through film or another path. Telling stories that resonate with the audience and make them feel something for that brief moment. Storytelling is not an escape but a moment to live a life unexplored.
Ria Cagampang
Ria is an Oxford based part-time blogger and full-time nerd. Born in the Philippines and raised in the UK, she is passionate about diversity, Asian representation in pop culture and feminism. Offline, she currently works in Educational Publishing, owns an unrealistically large pile of books to read and possesses a useless amount of encyclopedic knowledge about Musicals.
Sara Hayden
Sara Hayden is the founder of the Silk Knots Project, dedicated to preserving and sharing the lived experiences of Asian Americans in the Mountain West of the United States. Her work also appears in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Half Moon Bay Review. Her favorite stories center on art, culture, food and especially people. She holds a B.A. East Asian Languages and Cultures - Chinese from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. Communication - Journalism from Stanford University. Sara lives in San Francisco, California.
Sarah Maclean-Morris
Working in Cloud-Based business solutions by day, this Brit is a self-confessed traveller and scribbler by night, with a penchant for spontaneous trips, cooking and binging on the Mentalist. She has a Masters in Linguistics and an interest in Global Affairs, Politics and Culture and currently lives in Amsterdam. Having spent a period of time in China, she is interested in the ever changing dynamics of its relationship with the wider world. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief at www.talktothepen.com
Sarah Roxanne Sim
Originally from Singapore, Sarah recently graduated with a degree in Linguistics, and she has no idea what to do with it. She works in media creation and production, and is particularly interested in using multimedia and online journalism as a means of sharing the often untold stories of society’s disenfranchised and disadvantaged. She has written for the Straits Times, The Agenda, and The Culture Trip. She also really, really, really likes Electronic Soul music.
Sarina Wang
Sarina Wang is a Communication Major at the University of California, Los Angeles and hopes to one day pursue a career as a journalist or television personnel. In addition to studying, Sarina Wang currently works as a part-time writer on her personal, lifestyle blog. Some of her work has also been published by The Tab and The Huffington Post. By writing for Resonate, she hopes to share her perspective on Asian-American issues in the United States to inspire and relate to her readers.
Sue Zhao
Sue was born in China and grew up in the UK. Despite her youthful age of 19, she has demonstrated maturity beyond her years through writing about engaging topics involving morality, law, feminism and growing up in the UK. She hopes for a career in Law and hopes to gain as much experience as possible by writing on issues concerning her interests.
Sunny Reed
Sunny J. Reed is a New Jersey writer. Her work focuses on transracial adoption, race, and the American family. In addition to contributing to Intercountry Adoptee Voices and Dear Adoption, Sunny's creative nonfiction pieces are featured in Tilde: A Literary Journal and Parhelion Literary Magazine. She is currently at work on an autoethnography. Follow Sunny on Twitter and Facebook. Oh, and she doesn't hate white people, being Asian, or being adopted.
Susan Gardiner
Susan worked as an academic librarian for many years, after studying for a degree in English and an MA in Literature, History and Culture (University of Southampton, 2001). More recently, Susan has become a full-time writer, having published numerous articles, mainly about social history and football. She has written three books, Ipswich Town: A History (2013), Secret Ipswich (2015) and Ipswich Pubs (2016), all published by Amberley Press. She is currently researching for her latest biography about Frank Soo, the unknown Chinese footballer that played for England.
Tate Tsang
Tate is a recent graduate from the University of Oxford where she studied musicology. Tate’s research areas include deconstructing ‘Orientalism’ and ‘Othering’ of East Asian women within music and visual culture. Tate is currently a qualitative researcher for Voice ESEA and Global Women’s Narratives Project where she aims to bring critical perspectives on injustice toward women and ESEAs within a more political and applied setting. Through writing with Resonate, Tate hopes to contribute toward amplifying voices of under-represented groups and ESEA creatives.
Tony Jaybee
Not caring about fulfilling his Asian stereotype, Tony is an unashamed gamer who loves everything video-game related. First person shooters, RPGs, racing, sports - he doesn't care what genre it is, he'll play it. As a result, he loves discussing the latest games across all platforms.
Tracey Sidney
Tracy is an Australian Chinese writer who is currently residing in the UK. A journalist by trade she has over five years experience covering stories about Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific for an international news wire service. Her observations on the western and Chinese culture clash have inspired her writing immensely. She hopes to explore her ethnic identity and share her experience in doing so.
Troy Wilkinson
Troy is a poet and photographer born and raised in California. Supported by passions for songwriting, community organization, and graphic design, his work aims to mix cultures and inspire reflection. Throughout his upbringing in a multi-racial household, Asian culture continually proved to be a distinct and powerful companion to typical suburban life. Living abroad in countries such as Bhutan and China has deepened his efforts to explore the role of Asian culture in the modern world.
Victoria Chen
Vic is a middle child with a matcha addiction. She recently graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is on a mission to get a TV show produced for Netflix. As a theatre-maker, she aims to collaborate and work internationally on interdisciplinary projects, which you can find out more of on victoriachen.co.uk. She loves huge animals and food portions and has size 3 feet.
Vy-liam Ng
Vy-liam is a part time PhD student at the University of Bristol studying the state of human rights in the Far-East. Drawing from his background working in immigration and human rights law, Vy-liam was led to further his knowledge in this area, partly inspired by his time working with refugees living on the Thai-Burma border. Based in the UK, Vy-liam hopes to imbue his writing with a sense of academic flair and cover a range of issues close to his heart.
William Fisher
Born in the Philippines, Will moved to the United States because of his military father and lived all over the country. He decided to pick Texas A&M University where he earned his BA in History and MS in Sociology, though Jacksonville, Florida is home for now. His writing and research interests include international labor migration, exploitation of labor, Asian migrants, and Asian culture within the United States. Will spends his time doing Crossfit, walking his dogs, hiking and enjoying the beach.