YiYi He is a rising junior at the University of Southern California (USC). She has a double major in Economics and International Relations and a double minor in Accounting and East Asian Area Studies. Born and raised in China, she lived in Singapore for four years before she came to the US for college. She is fluent in Chinese Mandarin and English and speaks Cantonese on a conversational level. She is currently enrolled in the Semester Washington Summer Program at Georgetown University with an International Relations track. At USC, she is a researcher at the US-China Institute for which she does research on China’s active involvement in Africa, specifically the resources and economic drive behind it. She also mentors local community school students on broadening their knowledge about the East Asian region. Her major area of interest is Economics, particularly Macroeconomics analysis and policy on International Finance and Trade. Human rights will be a new area of interest for her because the idea of human rights is still highly sensitive and rarely discussed publically back at home. At HRNK, she is going to use her language skills and contribute a Chinese perspective. Her future career interest is international development and the economic dynamics involved in international development.