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Amy Zhang

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Amy Zhang

@azhang852

Storyteller + civic designer ✨| 2022 Joyland Open Borders Fiction Prize | ✍🏼 Editor, Heidi Pitlor Editorial | Previously @PatriotAct @PingChongCo 📺🎭

New York

Joined March 2013

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Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Dec 15, 2023
In Chiang Mai, I met so many young Chinese people--journalists, social workers, crypto nomads-- teeming with energy + creativity, on how to build new structures of being and community there. A new diaspora. So excited to share their voices + stories:
The Chinese Migrants of Chiang Mai — The Dial
From thedial.world
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Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Aug 18, 2020
So many feelings, but mostly GRATITUDE. For two years, I got to work alongside the best creatives and journalists in the business. We got to find stories that mattered, and tell them urgently, with passion, conviction, humor. And hand movements. :)
Deadline
@DEADLINE
Aug 18, 2020
‘Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj’ Canceled After Six Seasons On Netflix dlvr.it/RdtFlV
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Nov 2, 2020
I'm the first in my family to #vote. When I sent this photo to my family, they were SO excited. And then I realized I'm the first in my whole LINEAGE to vote. To hold a ballot in my hands. To have a say in the conditions in which I live. That is powerful.
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Jul 23, 2020
Yesterday I turned 27, and I also finally became a U.S. citizen! So many thoughts, but right now just gratitude for this birthday gift. @nytopinion kindly let me take over their Instagram Stories on my special day--go check it out!
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Jan 16, 2023
America, I think we’ve been brainwashed to have low expectations for our public transit. Behold, in a Taipei subway station: a breastfeeding room.
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Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Dec 9, 2019
I pitched an ep for @PatriotAct on the growing importance of Asian American voters and why we should be paid more attention. As a soon-to-be US citizen, this ep is close to my heart. Came out of the research feeling empowered, and hope you do too. 🙌
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Jul 20, 2023
These old guy swimmers in Houhai saw my camcorder, asked me to video them so they could check out their dives :) Then, of course, stories. A quintessential Beijing night ✨
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Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Jul 10, 2020
AHH I’M IN @nytopinion TODAY, CALLING OUT USCIS! This piece is for every immigrant who’s had to shape their lives around their insane, increasingly weaponized bureaucracy. Writing this was very satisfying.
Opinion | I’m 10 Minutes Away From Becoming a U.S. Citizen (Published 2020)
From nytimes.com
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
May 9, 2020
lol rmber the whole month america gave us asians shit for wearing masks and thought asia did it for shits and giggles or something
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Aug 24, 2020
It was traumatizing to witness Sheila + Nur, intrepid producers who led some of our top episodes--Amazon, Saudi Arabia, Indian Elections—be silenced, treated unfairly + made to later doubt their own skills in a toxic newsroom. They were not the only WOC who went through this.
nur nasreen
@Nuri_ibrahim
Aug 20, 2020
A lot of people have asked me to talk about Patriot Act. I avoided it because each time I relive the experience of being humiliated and gaslit, targeted and ignored, I sink back into days of depression. Tweeting this will probably not help me or anyone who has suffered.
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Aug 18, 2020
Replying to @andrewphung @hasanminhaj and 2 others
this is surreal because this is how I feel about YOUR show. thank you for your support kimchee <33
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
May 7, 2020
Dumplings Against Hate is in @WSJ today!!! Chinatown is suffering immensely right now, as they're shut out of small business loans AND dealing with racism. Many businesses will not recover. If you love Chinatown, pls donate to our fund: bit.ly/2YEEzKV
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Nov 3, 2020
I spent 6 months working on this piece, trying to figure out what it means to become an American citizen in 2020, as the country unravels. The surprise? I wrote myself into grit and optimism. It's time to change the American story. 💪🏼
The Atlantic
@TheAtlantic
Nov 3, 2020
"Instead of identifying with an old notion of the American dream, new citizens like me can advance a truer story," @azhang852 writes: on.theatln.tc/QMzCG4Q
Amy Zhang
@azhang852
Oct 7, 2020
I finished my one hour drama pilot about international students. 😳😭 It’s rough. But it’s there. And there are so many stories about that world that America needs to know!!!