Laurie Wen is a writer and activist. Her work has appeared in New York Times. She has a background in documentary filmmaking and her film, The Trained Chinese Tongue, is in the Criterion Channel collection. In New York, she was active in ACT UP, Occupy Wall Street, and anti-war groups as well as anti-poverty, food justice, and health justice movements. Now based in San Francisco, she works for a group that helps asylum seekers. At Mesa, Laurie worked on Touching Fire: Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement and the Liberation of Our Senses, a first-person account of Hong Kong’s mass protests in 2014 and 2019 that braids reportage, memoir, and cultural history. You can learn more about Laurie Wen here.
