Jessie Lau is a writer, freelance journalist, editor & artist

I’m an independent storyteller covering human rights, politics and culture with a transnational feminist perspective. Now based in London, I’ve also spent time in Beijing, California and Hong Kong, where I was born and raised. Over the past decade, my stories have appeared in The Guardian, The Economist, BBC, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, New Statesman, Quartz, The Nation, Mekong Review, openDemocracy, Channel 4 News, CNN and elsewhere.

Selected stories

Incarceration to convocation
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Incarceration to convocation

An ex-con turned UC Berkeley researcher, Murillo is one of thousands of formerly incarcerated persons struggling to re-enter society.

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