Fan Chen received her Bachelor’s degree from New York University and her Master’s from Columbia University. She has reported news in Cambodia, the Czech Republic, and China, where she covered politics, economics, gender, labor, media reform, and historical trauma. She has worked for Newsweek, Reuters, Southern People Weekly, and Caijing. She is now a photojournalist based in New York, where she continues to explore underrepresented and marginalized communities.