Heather Wang

A Storyteller, A Coder, A Traveler

who can write, film, design, code and calculate balance sheets.

Email: Heatherze01@gmail.com

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Code

Data Reporting

 Who gets in?: Admissions after affirmative action

Elite universities see paths forward to ensure diversity on campuses, but change may be slow to come

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Date: Feb 2024
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“I cannot see my future”: International students struggle to find paths to permanent residency through employment 

After five years of living and studying in the United States, earning two degrees and pursuing another, Feifei Cai, a 28-year-old Chinese student living in New York City, is still struggling for her working status.

Published: Global Observer
Date: Feb 2024
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Boston faces a shortage of domestic violence shelters

Massachusetts’ overburdened shelter system reached capacity earlier this month, causing a shortage of shelters and negatively impacting Boston’s vital domestic violence support network. 

Published: Global Observer
Date: Jan 2024
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Power Plants in the U.S.

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Journalism

Reporting

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Yi-An Huang makes progress as first Asian American city manager of Cambridge

Since taking office in September 2022, the public official has aimed to strengthen the council’s human resources, enact climate change policies and advance the city’s position in regional politics.

Published: The Scope
Date: 3 April 2024
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More international students lose their lives in the US than we know

The death in January of Jaahnavi Kandula, a student from India living in Seattle, attracted international attention when she was struck and killed by a police officer responding to a call.

Published: Global Observer
Date: Oct 2023
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International students struggle to find jobs as big tech layoffs continue.

Heming Zu was depressed, even hopeless, after her job application was rejected by a medical company in Missouri she was confident she could get in.

Published: Missouri Business Alert
Date: 13 May 2023
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Opioid pill flood: How The Washington Post presents the American drug crisis.

The drug overdose epidemic in the United States is no secret. But how high are the numbers? And where are opioid pills really coming from? The Washington Post’s new article, “How deeply did prescription opioid pills flood your county? See here” addresses those questions, and more, through engaging visualizations.

Published: Storybench
Date: 18 June 2023
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Entrepreneur Ethan Pierce is making classic literature more accessible with Adaptive Reader

The AI-assisted reading platform launched in July with a 14-book product lineup.

Published: The Scope
Date: Jan 2024
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Quality

Videos & Photos

Design

Graphics





projects

Project Management

While I was working for the Reynolds Journalism Institute, I conducted three projects that helped community newsrooms perform better on digital media and community engagement.

Built a WeChat channel to deliver local news to Chinese community in Mid-Missouri

The Chinese community is the largest non-English speaking community in Mid-Missouri, but local outlets have seldom covered the community. I built a WeChat Channel to deliver local news to the community in Chinese, partnering with two local newsrooms.

Read More: Creating an audio newsletter to serve local Chinese communities; How to operate a WeChat newsletter with the help of the community; Making your project sustainable beyond your departure
Analyze the audience with Excil for a newly established newsroom

AfroLA is a newly established newsroom based on the Black community in LA. I used Excil to analyze the media habits of their audience

Read More:How a newly founded newsroom is building community connections
Built a county-level map

I used Tableau to build county-level maps for a newsroom in New Jersery.

Read More:Building interactive maps to more equitably serve community


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