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 a current fellow with The Lever, an online newsroom focusing on government and corporate accountability.

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

Corporations Are Weaponizing Free Speech To Wreck The World

May 23, 2024

Corporations are weaponizing the First Amendment to argue they don’t have to comply with regulations they oppose. Referencing faulty science and controversies they helped engineer, these companies have pioneered a novel legal strategy taking aim at emissions disclosures, drug price caps, social media reforms, and other consumer and public health protections.

Lack of Cantonese services creates health care obstacles in S.F.

March 24, 2023

Chinese Hospital in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco also operates a number of community clinics.

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

People hold signs at a rally in the Castro held by the LGBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance to show support for Asian and Pacific Islanders communities in March 2021. Organizers succeeded in getting larger numbers of Asian voters to oust District Attorney Chesa Boudin and three school trustees from office in more recent elections.

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.