Hi, I'm David, a Bay Area-based journalist.

I'll post my Substack here once I get it going! In the meantime, you can see some of my past work below.

One Year at Xpress

Name DropsThis past summer, my mom wanted our family to get our passports renewed for a trip back to Hong Kong, my native country, next year. Filling out the form was easy enough; address, birth date, height — easy. But I had one issue: Should I put my Chinese name and my “American” name? Even after...

Gator Talk: A Movie We Are Thankful ForWelcome to Gator Talk, the Xpress podcast that brings city perspectives to local, regional and national news. In today’s podcast episode, A&E Editor from Golden Gate Xpress, D’Angelo Hernandez and David Ye, Copy Editor for Xpress Magazine and the Latinx Film Club talk about why they are thankful for “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once”. Intro ...

Down the DrainSince the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become much more wary of illnesses — especially during the winter. Hospitals saw the most weekly admissions for COVID-19 cases in January of 2022, with January of 2021 being the second-most, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three years later, experts continue to warn of winter...

“My Country is my Abuela”: A Q&A with Yosimar ReyesOn Oct. 10, 2023, the Dream Resource Center and the student organization Improving Dreams, Equity, Access and Success welcomed back SF State alumnus Yosimar Reyes for an open panel, “Beyond Graduation: A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes.” The panel was the second event of the Undocumented Student Month of Action, a series of programs inspiring solidarity...

SF State’s Modern ActivismSocial change and activism thrive on many college campuses nationwide, challenging the status quo and igniting movements that extend far beyond campus borders. The past achievements of activism on college campuses is a testament that speaks to the power of young voices in shaping the future. That could be said for so many points in...

The Last WordColleges are commonly regarded as stages for academic discourse and discussion, and SF State is no exception. From a rally for safer campus conditions back when it was a teachers college to 1968’s Third World Liberation Front strike and beyond, SF State stands out as a historical landmark of student activism. One facet of...

Tackling Campus TensionsJust two days into 2024, Claudine Gay resigned from her position as president of Harvard University amidst plagiarism accusations. The resignation also came after a statement from the university’s Office of the President received a lot of backlash and criticism from students and non-students alike. The statement’s opening line, released on Oct. 9, 2023, reads: ...

Digging deeper...

Future of the Bay August 2024 Special | KQEDInterested in what area young people think about the future of our region? Every year, students from San Francisco State University grab microphones, audio recorders and headphones in search of the stories that matter to them across the Bay Area. From thrifting culture to harassment on public transit to the hyphy movement, students share stories from around the community in this special report, “The Future of the Bay Area.” The collaboration between KQED and SFSU started as an idea back in 2022

Did Mice Reveal the Fountain of Youth? - Cal Alumni AssociationAn experiment conducted by the lab of Berkeley bioengineering professor Irina Conboy showed that a single transfusion of blood from older mice to younger mice triggered cellular senescence in the younger animals.

Vote to Fix Issues - IssuuDuring last year’s ASB elections, crowds of people were lining up in the quad to receive their ballot and cast their votes, and I was one of them. I remember all the Snapchat stories saying “vote for this person” on a daily basis. I thought it was great that students were actively campaigning, but I noticed that they were only campaigning for the candidate that they were friends with. This social preference led me to become extremely frustrated with the student body. The ASB elections aren’t a popularity contest, and we need to stop treating them as such. However, I do think that the elections, to a certain extent, are irrelevant in the general AHS experience. The only noticeable everyday occurrence that our vote affects is the voice we hear on the loudspeaker, but even that is trivial. You might be asking yourself “Why is this guy getting so fed up over who I vote for if he just called the elections irrelevant?”

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