Eli Chen
Digital News ProducerEli Chen is ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøվ’s afternoon digital news producer. Hailing from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, she is a Taiwanese American journalist who’s worked mainly in audio for more than a decade. She comes most recently from National Geographic, where she was the senior editor of Overheard, which won the 2022 Ambies Award for the best science and knowledge podcast. Prior to that, Eli covered science and environmental issues at St. Louis Public Radio and Delaware Public Media, and produced segments for Science Friday. While in St. Louis, she helped launch live storytelling shows there with the science communication nonprofit and podcast, The Story Collider. And she has served as a regular mentor with the NPR’s Next Generation Radio project since 2017. Eli has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and environmental sustainability from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a master’s in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York.
Eli lives with her partner, Matt, and cat-like pitbull mix Rosie in Chapel Hill, and likes to draw, rollerskate, and celebrate Asian American food and pop culture on the regular. You can follow her on X and instagram .
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A team of two artists and an oral history scholar created a mural next to Union Station in Raleigh. It’s dedicated to recognizing joy and belonging for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders who live in North Carolina. -
Fewer than half of Asian American voters have been contacted by either political party, according to a 2022 survey. Despite this lack of outreach, AAPI voters are the fastest growing electorate in the U.S. -
Long overlooked, North Carolina's Asian American electorate is growing in number and political powerWhile Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders comprise just 4% of North Carolina's population, their numbers and political power are growing rapidly. Across the state, AAPI advocates are empowering their communities to speak up and participate during this election year. -
As the Wheels Roller Skating Rink in east Durham prepares to reopen this fall, skaters gathered for a party in Durham Central Park to help inspire Triangle-area artist Dare Coulter, who is building a public art installation for the roller rink. -
Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin announced in a video released Tuesday that she will not seek reelection. After dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis last year and her husband’s health issues, she said she wants to devote more energy to herself and her family. -
In a recent exhibition at the Anchorlight Gallery in Raleigh, artist Saba Taj channeled the emotional pain they felt over the suffering and loss that Palestinians in Gaza have experienced since Oct. 7 into a series of paintings that feature Palestinian birds and plants. -
Many Hmong refugees settled in western North Carolina in the decades following the Vietnam War. Now that they’re getting older and are dealing with more health issues, they’ve become more reliant on their adult children to serve as interpreters in healthcare settings, which can be challenging given major differences between the English and Hmong languages. -
Nowell's Clothiers in Raleigh is closing this spring. It's a popular men's clothing store that's been open for 103 years. -
UNC-Chapel Hill student Shristi Sharma grew up in a small town in Iowa, believing she was American — until a conversation with her father during middle school changed everything she knew about her life. -
Due to a massive backlog in employment-based green card applications, Indian nationals who’ve applied for green cards are often waiting many years to receive permanent residency status in the U.S. The long wait has impacted many Indian tech workers in North Carolina’s Triangle and also a growing number of college students whose parents brought them to the U.S. when they were young children.
