The W3A Book Club had the honor and pleasure of hosting Amy Yee ‘96 at our July gathering. We discussed many aspects of her journey in writing, Far From the Rooftop of the World, and her meetings with the Dalai Lama.

Amy Yee @amyyeewrites is an award-winning journalist, currently with Chicago Sun-Times and previously with Bloomberg/CityLab, writing about in/equality and solutions to social problems. She is a former staff reporter and foreign correspondent for the Financial Times in New York and New Delhi. She lived in India from 2006 to 2013, Bangladesh in 2014-15, and reported from 10 countries in Africa from 2016 to 2018.

On April 15, Wellesley’s Advisor for Students of Asian Descent, Karen Shih, hosted a panel called “Building Resilience: Addressing Anti-Asian Racism During COVID-19.” The goals of the event were to empower people of Asian descent with strategies for navigating racism, violence, harassment, and discrimination in the midst of COVID-19; offer advice to allies who want to better support Asians and Asian Americans; and share historical context & raise awareness about the dynamics of anti-Asian racism. Our Wellesley sib, Huiying B. Chan ‘16, was one of the panelists, and was gracious enough to spend an afternoon with us to discuss what that event meant to them.