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IRENE JAY LIU is a print and radio journalist, specializing in investigative reporting.

She is currently a staff writer in the Capitol Bureau of the Albany Times Union. She is also a fellow with the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a correspondent for the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR).

Her work has been featured in the Albany Times Union, Columbia Journalism Review, Center for Public Integrity, New York Post, GT Weekly, Economist.com, KQED Public Radio, and National Public Radio. She has reported in China, Thailand, Belize, Ukraine, Turkey and around the US.

Most recently, her investigative radio documentary on Chinese human smuggling, SNAKEHEAD, aired as a two-day series on NPR's Morning Edition. She reported, wrote and produced SNAKEHEAD as her master's project at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Before becoming a journalist, she worked for years in the non-profit and philanthropic sector. While an undergrad at Yale, she cofounded and led Advanced Strategies for Healthcare Access, for which she was nominated for the Ford Foundation's Leadership in a Changing World award and profiled in The New York Times. She then worked as a consultant for the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Irene grew up in the Show Me state, born and raised in St. Louis until her family moved to Shanghai, PRC in 1994. She still goes home to China, but has bounced up and down both US coasts for over a decade.

Irene graduated from Yale University in 2004 with a BA in Political Science. In May 2007, she earned a MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

 

 

 

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