The October Chinese Language Group session was led by Ashley Rudianne, Chelsea Anglin, Jordan Giles, and Raven Witherspoon. They welcomed Yangyang Chen, an award-winning writer and interdisciplinary scholar.

She is a Senior Fellow at Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, an editor at the Made in China Journal, and host to several podcasts.

Born and raised in China, Yangyang trained as a particle physicist, earning her PhD from the University of Chicago and working on the Large Hadron Collider for more than a decade.

In this session, she joined NABEA members to talk about how language can become a home, especially for those who live and work across cultures.