I am a joint doctoral student in Education Policy and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. My interest is in marginalized youth, broadly defined. As such, my research has focused on immigrant adolescent experiences in US schools, educational transitions in rural China, particularly among girls and ethnic minorities, ethnic identification in China, cultural capital transfers between US adolescent friends, and most recently, the relationship between sexual behavior, attraction, and identity of queer youth.
Before coming to Penn, I taught algebra and geometry at a public charter school and Upward Bound in San Francisco and was co-founder of a technology start-up based in Shanghai. I received my bachelor's degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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