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Amy Yee

@amyyeewrites

Author book on Tibetan refugees in India, Foreword @DalaiLama| Journo@suntimes Ex@FT, Bloomberg; Awards: 3@UNCA 4@SAJAhq 1@aaja 1@ahcj 4x Notable Best Am Essays

@harvard_kennedy @columbia Katılım Nisan 2012
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Caring for a family member? New Illinois law gives workers protections from employer discrimination Advocates say it’s the country’s strongest protection for people caring for children, aging parents and other family members chicago.suntimes.com/work/2024/12/2…
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Thank you @CJA_Updates! Honored to be a finalist for the 4th year in a row. Thanks to all I spoke to for these #solutionsjournalism caregiving stories for @Suntimes A Chicago native quit work and moved to care for her aging parent. She's not alone chicago.suntimes.com/work/2024/12/2…
Chicago Journ Assoc@CJA_Updates

Let’s start the weekend by celebrating our 2025 #SarahBrownBoydenAward finalists! Congrats to everyone! Our judges were blown away. 👏👏 Find out who will win at our 86th Anniversary Awards Ceremony FRIDAY, NOV. 14! Full list of finalists & work here: chicagojournalists.net/2025/10/31/cja… 1/

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The book is FAR FROM THE ROOFTOP OF THE WORLD: TRAVELS AMONG TIBETAN REFUGEES ON FOUR CONTINENTS with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama from @UNC_Press Winner of a Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year award for nonfiction uncpress.org/9781469675510/…
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TODAY in Madison! Th Oct 23, 5:30pm I'm speaking at the @WIBookFestival at Central Library about my literary journalism + travel book about Tibetan refugees I met in India. wisconsinbookfestival.org/event-schedule… With Dr. Sonam Dolma and in partnership w/ Center for East Asian Studies.
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By 2013, the program had trained 20,000 skilled birth attendants in Bangladesh alone, giving newborns like the one I met a chance to live. Now ~5,200 of USAID’s 6,200 programs have been eliminated. Typically less than 1% of the U.S. federal budget funded those programs..."
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She learned to use a tiny plastic face mask, air bag and suction device through a program called Helping Babies Breathe. It was an international collaboration with USAID, @SavetheChildren, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Laerdal Foundation of Norway and others.
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My @suntimes OpEd: In a village in Bangladesh I met a 6-month old baby who literally would have died if not for the health worker trained through a USAID-supported program. Wiping out almost all of #USAID means more people - like an innocent baby - will die.
Chicago Sun-Times@Suntimes

From the Sun-Times commentary section: Sun-Times reporter Amy Yee witnessed firsthand how programs funded by U.S. Agency for International Development saved lives and improved the standard of living for many people in Bangladesh and other countries. trib.al/7p7vx4q

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CSTGuild.bsky.social@CSTGuild·
We encourage you all to keep letting CPM know what our newsroom means to you, as well as donating to help us continue providing free, local journalism for Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/support-cst
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Our union received the bittersweet news today that there will not be any layoffs at the Chicago Sun-Times. But 16 beloved Guild members have taken buyouts, as have several non-union newsroom colleagues. This is the biggest hit to our newsroom in at least 12 years.
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We’re at Navy Pier today telling the CPM Board to keep their promise of finding non-labor cuts to save public media and the people who make it. Seven Guild members have taken buyouts, another 11 have applied, and at least 21 non-Guild staff have too.
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@Suntimes + @WBEZ under Chicago Public Media is largest nonprofit newsroom in US, infused with $61m from philanthropy incl @macfound. But now CPM execs want to cut ~$5m thru @suntimes buyouts + likely layoffs that will decimate us. Support @CSTGuild's fight to save public media!
CSTGuild.bsky.social@CSTGuild

Seven Sun-Times Guild members have decided to take buyouts in the past six weeks — and we expect more to exit soon. Chicago Public Media told us they needed to slash $3-5 million through buyouts and other cost cuts. Today, we’re concerned management might resort to layoffs.

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We are disappointed by today's announcement that Chicago Public Media will seek voluntary staff buyouts. Our union is frustrated that our organization's management did not secure more revenue in the past three years to avoid staffing cuts and secure our sustainability.
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Through the @CarterCenter , countless lives have been saved and incalculable suffering ended. Carter will be laid to rest in a state funeral in Washington, D.C. on Jan 9. But his mission and impact lives on in far corners of the world.
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“We believe access to health care is a human right, especially among poor people afflicted with disease who are forgotten, ignored and often without hope,” Carter said.
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