Picture shot in 2021
Yang, born in Hunan province in 1999 in China, graduated with a BA in Television & Broadcasting from Tongji University in Shanghai in 2021. Benefited from the special education policy in Shanghai, she got a chance to take a minor degree in journalism at Fudan University where she found her eternal passion in writing.
To pursue her dream of becoming a journalist, Yang took her first intern at the International News Department of Beijing News in 2018 where she became the author of the most-viewed article on the WeChat subscription account based on Kim Yo-jong. Later, she took another at the Investigative Reporting Department in the Paper in 2020 where she focused much on gender-based discrimination and violence issues.
During her bachelor years, Yang developed a great interest in the gender equality movement and co-founded the White-Desert community, a club specialized in gender-related topics, within the campus. Adding to this, she wrote serial articles to report the #Metoo case in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She also conducted a documentary on transgender students on campus in which she tried to discuss the conflict between their self-recognition and social expectation. Yang joined Justice4Her in 2019, a media project funded by the European Union, aiming at combating domestic violence and promoting gender equality in China.
Yang holds the belief that journalists should bring voices back to those deprived of and speak up for those who are silenced.
Yang is now a student of Master of Journalism of Hong Kong University.
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