Yanni Li is a master’s student in East Asian Studies at Stanford. She completed her B.A. in Art History and East Asian Studies at Wellesley College, where she focused on the intersection of visual arts, institutions, politics, and society in 20th Century China and Japan. Currently, she has two broad interests: governance in contemporary China and its consequences for national cohesion, and measuring impact of social programs and policies with statistical methods. Before coming to Stanford, Yanni interned at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, researching U.S.-China decoupling, and at Trivium China, where she was a technology policy intern working on China’s evolving data policies. She cares deeply about international collaborations, public diplomacy, and China’s role in the world.
