Eli Chen
Digital News ProducerEli Chen is WUNC’s afternoon digital news producer. Hailing from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, she is a Taiwanese American journalist who’s worked mainly in audio for more than a decade. She comes most recently from National Geographic, where she was the senior editor of Overheard, which won the 2022 Ambies Award for the best science and knowledge podcast. Prior to that, Eli covered science and environmental issues at St. Louis Public Radio and Delaware Public Media, and produced segments for Science Friday. While in St. Louis, she helped launch live storytelling shows there with the science communication nonprofit and podcast, The Story Collider. And she has served as a regular mentor with the NPR’s Next Generation Radio project since 2017. Eli has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and environmental sustainability from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a master’s in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York.
Eli lives with her partner, Matt, and cat-like pitbull mix Rosie in Chapel Hill, and likes to draw, rollerskate, and celebrate Asian American food and pop culture on the regular. You can follow her on X @StoriesByEli and instagram @elichenreports.
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UNC-Chapel Hill student Shristi Sharma grew up in a small town in Iowa, believing she was American — until a conversation with her father during middle school changed everything she knew about her life.
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Due to a massive backlog in employment-based green card applications, Indian nationals who’ve applied for green cards are often waiting many years to receive permanent residency status in the U.S. The long wait has impacted many Indian tech workers in North Carolina’s Triangle and also a growing number of college students whose parents brought them to the U.S. when they were young children.
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Two weeks since Hamas' surprise attack in Israel, hundreds of North Carolina Triangle residents gathered in downtown Raleigh to call for action against the violence in Israel and Gaza.
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As the Asian American population grows in the South – along with national awareness of anti-Asian violence – the works of Asian American artists have become more visible in art galleries and public spaces in North Carolina. What they have in common is how they express pride in the artists’ identity and experiences as Asian Americans.
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After receiving widespread public backlash, the Wake Forest classical station has decided to broadcast six contemporary operas that it had deemed 'inappropriate' in a letter sent to listeners in August.
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As Pride reached its sixth year in Durham, Tori Grace Nichols, one of the few Asian American drag performers in the Triangle, shares how they connect drag to their Pilipinx identity.
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When a Chinese American professor was killed on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus on Aug. 28, it triggered deep-seated anxiety and fear among Asian Americans in the Triangle.
