About me
I’m a part time Lecturer in Journalism at City, University of London, teaching across both the BA and MA Journalism Programmes. I’m also a part time MA student at SOAS, working towards my postgraduate degree in South East and Pacific Asian Studies.
Outside of this, I’m a
freelance journalist and media consultant based in London. My writing and reporting covers the intersections of identity, culture and underrepresented communities, and my work has been published in Al Jazeera, CNN, the Guardian, openDemocracy, Jacobin, ELLE and more. As a media consultant, I specialise in working with values-driven organisations on communications, campaigns and storytelling. I’m the creator of Ginkgo Leaves, my newsletter loosely inspired by the ginkgo tree, and I’m the co-founder of fragments, a newsletter exploring sibling grief in all its forms.
From 2021-2023, I was Head of Editorial at gal-dem, the award-winning media company committed to sharing the perspectives of people of colour from marginalised genders. Prior to this, I was based at TIME for five years, first as an Audience Editor in Hong Kong, then as a Senior Reporter covering gender, culture and underrepresented communities in London. I wrote two cover stories for TIME in 2019—both involving train travel across Europe with Greta Thunberg.
I have previously volunteered with Arts Emergency as a coach—find out more about their work supporting young creatives here. And I’m a published short fiction story writer, with two of my stories published by TOKEN magazine and The Plaza Prizes in 2023.
Images of me by Christy Ku.