Mary Yang is a news assistant on the Business Desk where she covers technology, media, labor and the economy. She came to NPR from Foreign Policy where she covered the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine and built a beat on Southeast Asia, Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Yang previously spent time on the Hill covering affordable housing and transportation policy as a beat reporter for Medill News Service and wrote about small businesses at Inc. She was one of the first writers at The Yappie, a nonprofit newsroom on AAPI politics and policy, and she is a proud member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

Yang has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, where she also studied political science. She is based in Washington, D.C.