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Cynthia Liu is a photographer & documentary filmmaker based in brooklyn, nyc. she grew up in north carolina and sometimes tianjin, china.
previously
video fellow at Business Insider ’24
english teaching fellow in a small town in France ’23
video fellow at Asian American Journalists Association ’22
multimedia intern at the Malheur Enterprise ’22
co-author of Lunchbox through NCAAT’s Asian Solidarity & Action Project cohort ’22-‘24
honors
Student Excellence in Video Storytelling, Asian American Journalists Association ‘24
Multimedia Group Award of Excellence, College Photographer of the Year ‘23
Multimedia Individual Gold Award, College Photographer of the Year ‘22
Multimedia III 2nd Place, Hearst Journalism Awards ‘22
Photojournalism Portrait 1st place, 37th Frame, ‘22
Artist in Residence, Short Story UNC ‘22
education
UNC-Chapel Hill ‘23; Journalism B.A., minors in English & Comparative Lit. and French & Francophone Studies
City, University of London ‘22
CIEE Paris, ‘18
+ Cary Chinese School, every saturday since ‘07
photo by claire hambrick
she speaks english, mandarin, and french.
cynthiameiliu@gmail.com