Amy Yee

Amy Yee is an award-winning journalist, most recently with Bloomberg/CityLab in Chicago and previously as a Financial Times correspondent in New York and India where she lived for seven years. She has also written for the New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, NPR and 30+ outlets. She has won three awards from the United Nations Correspondents Association; four from South Asian Journalists Association; as well as from Association of Healthcare Journalists; Asian American Journalists Association for political reporting about protecting voting rights of immigrant voters; and Society of Professional Journalists Northwest for racial equity reporting. Amy has four Notable Essays in the Best American Essays. She has reported from 20+ countries, including ten in Africa. Amy is a MacDowell Fellow and a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia Journalism School, and Wellesley. She has an MFA from Hunter.