I'm an Ethnicity and Race Studies/Political Science double major at Columbia! I'm interested in immigration studies, interdisciplinary political science research, and community organizing work.
Wena Teng studies History at Columbia University specializing in Political Economy. Born in Queens and raised in Asia, Wena’s transnational experience drives her advocacy for migration labor and diasporic communities. Wena has led the Urban Justice Center on policy campaigns to accommodate legal resources for street vendors and has provided policy recommendations on labor and trade as a White House Intern. She serves as Columbia University Senator and is a Truman Scholar, Laidlaw Scholar, and Research Assistant. Wena aspires to build inclusive migration policy as a clinical legal academic and elected policymaker. Wena is from the United States.
I am a Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Scholar at Columbia University studying in English and philosophy. My research interests include, broadly, Anglo-American fiction (C19-present), theory of the novel (late C19-present), narratology, and (the literature of) electronic media. I am particularly interested in the problem of narrative form in the digital age.
My Laidlaw experience focuses on reframing the tourism industry to center the environment. In my first year, I developed a map of NYC's ecotourism, focused on environmental justice, circularity, and emissions reduction. In my second year in Santiago, Chile, I have collaborated with FEDETUR, the federation of tourism enterprises of Chile, to develop materials for tourism businesses to reduce their carbon footprint.