Vanessa Chen

- Podcast Editor

Vanessa is a highschool senior at Stuyvesant High School. She is a student journalist for Chalkbeat NY as well as a staff reporter for her school newspaper. She has organized multiple community events, including gatherings where Chinatown youth can bond and protests against displacement.

Beyond her interests in social activism, Vanessa is the executive producer for her school’s theater community and produced her school’s fall musical, “Matilda.” In her free time, she can be found binging nostalgic Disney movies or going on food crawls. Through her work at Next Gen, she hopes to expand her own knowledge while helping bridge divides through bipartisan discussions.