Hello, I am Katherine.
About me
I am recent graduate of the UC Berkeley Grad School of Journalism, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am now working on an investigative and narrative story with the UC Berkeley affiliated Investigative Reporting Program.
Before this, I wrote stories about the AAPI community in the Bay Area. Being someone who is fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin, I wrote freelance stories for papers like the San Francisco Chronicles, as well as interned for the San Francisco Examiner.
During my time at Berkeley, I also worked for the Investigative Reporting Program, where I picked up experience in open source reporting, geolocation, Boolean searches, FOIA requests, HTML coding, and fact checking.
Prior to coming to California, I was a journalist in Hong Kong, where I interned and freelanced for the New York Times Hong Kong Bureau, engaging in political and urban conflict reporting in my home city where intense protests broke out in 2019.
Timeline
Investigative Reporting Program & UC Berkeley Human Rights Center
Open source student researcher
Sept 2022 - May 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism (MJ)
Aug 2021 - May 2023
San Francisco Examiner
Editorial Intern
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Investigative Reporting Program
Intern reporter/researcher
Sept 2021 - Apr 2022
The New York Times
Editorial intern/freelancer
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Hong Kong Baptist University
International Journalism - BA
Aug 2016 - May 2020
My favourites
Lack of Cantonese services creates health care obstacles in S.F.
March 24, 2023
In San Francisco, where Cantonese is the second most demanded language for bilingual assistance, Asian American residents are sometimes referred to a dead end due to a shortage of Cantonese services and culturally competent providers in the healthcare system.
Asian activism is helping to reshape San Francisco's political landscape.
Jun 10, 2022
Frustrations with public education and anti-Asian crimes are turning out an increasing number of Asian voters who used to lack motivation for political participation, leading to a need to re-evaluate the role of Asian American voters in the city.
Overlooked No More: Sanmao, ‘Wandering Writer’ Who Found Her Voice in the Desert
October 23, 2019
Her book, “Stories of the Sahara,” has endured for generations of young Taiwanese and Chinese women yearning for independence from conservative social norms.
Other stories
SF Examiner
January 24, 2023
SF Gate
June 2, 2023
SF Examiner
August 22, 2022
Rewrire News Group
October 18, 2021