Stories by Amy Yee

Amy Yee is an award-winning journalist whose book Beyond Exile: Tibetan Refugees in India and Beyond is forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2022. She writes for the New York Times, The Economist and NPR and is a former Financial Times staff reporter in New York and India. You can learn more about her at amyyeewrites.com and Twitter: @amyyeewrites.

Policy

Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Is Being Stifled

Funders and peer reviewers are contributing to systemic racism through their biases about members of these populations

July 8, 2021 — Amy Yee | Opinion

Policy

COVID’s Outsize Impact on Asian Americans Is Being Ignored

Along with Pacific Islanders, they suffer from disproportionately high death rates and hospitalizations and low testing—but their suffering remains invisible

May 6, 2021 — Amy Yee | Opinion

Policy

It’s a Myth That Asian-Americans Are Doing Well in the Pandemic

Statistics suggest they are—but numbers often don’t include the most vulnerable with limited English

March 2, 2021 — Amy Yee | Opinion

Environment

Vertical Gardens Beat Soil Made Salty by Climate Change

Saltwater is shrinking Bangladesh’s arable land, but a simple approach of planting crops in containers shows surprising success

January 30, 2015 — Amy Yee

Health

Why Do Eye Muscles Function in ALS as Other Muscles Waste Away?

As the first ice-bucket challenge funds are disbursed, researchers also hope to solve the puzzle of why certain muscles escape the ravages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a detail that might lead to new treatments...

October 16, 2014 — Amy Yee