Yingjing Deng – Executive Director
Yingjing Deng works as the senior program manager at MIT and serves as the President of the Harvard Kennedy School New England Alumni Association. She has over ten years’ experience in communications, media, and project management. She is a storyteller, a news/ documentary/ visual art producer, and an author.
Before studying and working at Harvard, she served as the correspondent/chief editor/chief producer for two leading media groups (Phoenix and Sina) in China. She is passionate about uncovering the truth, giving the voiceless a voice through the power of storytelling, as well as empowering refugees, immigrants and children worldwide.
Since 2015, She has initiated several non-profit projects to support the education of orphans in Cambodia and Syrian refugee children and youths in Lebanon. She holds an MC/MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.