Wendy Zhou

Wendy Zhou (Research Fellow)  is a research fellow at the Centre, where she analyzes the role of civil society in protecting minority rights in Indonesia. Previously, she contributed to research and education programs at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, focused on expanding access to high-quality, affordable primary healthcare in underserved regions of China and India. Wendy earned her B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley, where she conducted open-source investigations with the Human Rights Center on conflicts in Myanmar, Lebanon, Kashmir, Hong Kong, and beyond.

Email : wendy.zhou@berkeley.edu

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Native language: English
• Intermediate: Cantonese, Mandarin
• Elementary: Spanish, Indonesian

Education

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Undergraduate Research Fellow – Center on the Politics of Development, Oct 2020 – May 2022
• Research and Intelligence Intern – Investigative Consultants, June – Aug 2021
• Open Source Research Fellow – United Nations Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, Feb – May 2021
• Undergraduate Researcher – Human Rights Center (UC Berkeley School of Law), Aug 2019 – Dec 2020
• Research Assistant – Sociology Department (UC Berkeley), July – Dec 2020
• Policy Research and Advocacy Intern – Direction Association For The Handicapped, June – Aug 2019

VOLUNTEERING

• Investigations Team Lead – Human Rights Center (UC Berkeley School of Law), 2021
• Programming and Events Manager – The Berkeley Forum, 2021
• Mentor – UC Berkeley Lingnan W.T. Chan Fellowship, 2021

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

• UC Berkeley Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship, 2018-2022
• Freeman Asia Scholarship, 2019

Professional Development

• DFRLab Digital Sherlock – Atlantic Council, 2020-2021
• Public Service Conference – George Washington University Elliot School, 2021
• Cox-State Department Diplomacy Seminar – U.S. Department of State, 2020
• Stanford Uplifting Voices FLI Conference — Stanford University, 2020