Jessie Lau is an independent writer, editor and multi-platform journalist from Hong Kong. She’s spent the past decade covering the intersections of human rights, politics and culture from Asia, Europe and the United States. Her essays and reportage have appeared in The Guardian, BBC, Los Angeles Review of Books, CNN, Times Literary Supplement, WIRED, The Economist and many more publications. Jessie is the founder of New Tide, Britain’s only East and Southeast Asian journalism network, head of the magazine team at NüVoices, a non-profit supporting women and minorities working on China topics, and contributing editor at Translator, a publication of translated journalism.