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NYU Shanghai
567 Yangsi West Road
Shanghai, Shanghai, 200126
China

Candy Yang

User Experience Researcher

Since her undergraduate years at NYU, Candy paid great attention to her emotions and feelings. This commitment to recognizing and embracing her emotions has helped her navigate challenges with tranquility while passionately pursuing her ambitions. Presently, as a user experience researcher in the tech industry, Candy leverages her understanding of human emotions to propose innovative feature enhancements for various products. When she's not doing field research, you can find Candy practicing Pilates or traveling to new exciting destinations.

Kevin Richardson

Photographer

Kevin Richardson is a South African freelance photographer and surfer based in Shanghai. Since 2017, he has been living in China, documenting the daily life of anyone on the street, connecting with strangers, and taking portraits of them on 35mm film. He recently started a YouTube channel dedicated to sharing his photography journey with others, to show how interesting and beautiful daily life can be while pursuing what he considered his true passions.

Shuang Wen

Professor at New York University Shanghai

Shuang Wen (or 温爽 in Chinese) is a historian of modern China and the Arab world. Before joining NYU Shanghai, Prof. Wen held fellowships at the National University of Singapore and New York University Abu Dhabi. As a native Mandarin speaker, she received intensive Arabic-language training from Cairo and Damascus. Before switching her career to academia, Shuang was a broadcast journalist for Phoenix Satellite Television InfoNews Channel in Hong Kong (香港鳳凰衛視資訊台, 2003–2006), covering major breaking news events from the Middle East, and English-Mandarin-Cantonese simultaneous interpreter for live news coverage.