CICI(SI) CHEN, the 2022-2024 TC Young scholar at Harris School of Public Policy
Si has been a News Researcher at the Associated Press in Shanghai for more than 4 years. She works with the international investigative team on in-depth reporting projects and jumps in on important news breaks in China. She covered a wide range of social topics, from labor rights, opioids abuses, and poverty alleviation, to the epidemic outbreak, testing kits and mask supply, zero-Covid policy, and Shanghai lockdown. She is a part of the team nominated as a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in the investigative category for the reporting that reflected China’s early mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Prior to Associated Press, Si was an Economic Affairs intern at the United Nations in New York headquarter, assisted with the research and plenary meetings at Committee for Development Policy, and collected data on the economic issues related to Least Development Countries.
After graduating from Harris, Si hopes to focus on international development policy and do more coverage and research that illuminates China’s process of social change and growing global influence.
Si has Bachelor's degrees in economics and journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, with a minor in mathematics and a multicultural studies certification.
Si has been a News Researcher at the Associated Press in Shanghai for more than 4 years. She works with the international investigative team on in-depth reporting projects and jumps in on important news breaks in China. She covered a wide range of social topics, from labor rights, opioids abuses, and poverty alleviation, to the epidemic outbreak, testing kits and mask supply, zero-Covid policy, and Shanghai lockdown. She is a part of the team nominated as a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in the investigative category for the reporting that reflected China’s early mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Prior to Associated Press, Si was an Economic Affairs intern at the United Nations in New York headquarter, assisted with the research and plenary meetings at Committee for Development Policy, and collected data on the economic issues related to Least Development Countries.
After graduating from Harris, Si hopes to focus on international development policy and do more coverage and research that illuminates China’s process of social change and growing global influence.
Si has Bachelor's degrees in economics and journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, with a minor in mathematics and a multicultural studies certification.