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Hi! My name's feini yin and I use they/them pronouns. I'm a journalist, community organizer, and fishmonger working at the intersection of science, environment, food, and social justice. I'm based in stolen Lenni-Lenape land otherwise known as Philadelphia.
I am currently making Our Fishing Log, a Philly podcast and multimedia storytelling project about our local fish, people who love fish, and the ways fish connect us to the world, each other, and ourselves. Our Fishing Log is co-produced by Philly podcast studio Rowhome Productions and food photographer Neal Santos. Our community partner is Fishadelphia, a community seafood program in Philly focused on inclusion and youth empowerment. You can follow us on IG at @our.fishing.log and support our GoFundMe here.
I'm the media coordinator for the North American Marine Alliance, a fishermen-led organization building a broad movement toward healthy fisheries and fishing communities. I'm also on the executive committee of the Local Catch Network, a community-of-practice committed to strengthening local and regional seafood systems, and I'm a fishmonger with Fishadelphia. In my spare time I'm a devoted recreational surfcaster!
Previously I worked as a reporter and producer for The Pulse, a public radio show about the people and places at the heart of health and science. Before that, I was a contributor to the New York Times science section, where I mostly covered genetics, evolution, and ecology.
I have a graduate degree in journalism from NYU's Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program, and a bachelor's degree in environmental science from Brown. As an undergrad I did a lot of marine ecology research, from monitoring ghost crabs on a Marine Corps base in North Carolina to studying mangrove harvesting in a community of Sama sea nomads in Indonesia. I did my thesis on the knotty relationship between fishing, herbivorous crabs, and carbon capture in Cape Cod salt marshes. I also experimented with making stop-motion animations like this, this, and this one.
I spent my formative teenage years in suburban New Jersey, where I edited my high school's literary magazine and was really into AP Bio. Before that, I picked dandelions during recess and tore through books while dangling off furniture in precarious positions. I was born and spent my early childhood in Philadelphia, gardening, cooking, and watching a lot of Chinese satellite TV with my grandparents. To this day I have a somewhat geriatric predilection for slowness and simplicity, which I'm constantly trying to balance with being a voracious learner in an ever-quickening and evolving world.
You can find my CV here.
I am currently making Our Fishing Log, a Philly podcast and multimedia storytelling project about our local fish, people who love fish, and the ways fish connect us to the world, each other, and ourselves. Our Fishing Log is co-produced by Philly podcast studio Rowhome Productions and food photographer Neal Santos. Our community partner is Fishadelphia, a community seafood program in Philly focused on inclusion and youth empowerment. You can follow us on IG at @our.fishing.log and support our GoFundMe here.
I'm the media coordinator for the North American Marine Alliance, a fishermen-led organization building a broad movement toward healthy fisheries and fishing communities. I'm also on the executive committee of the Local Catch Network, a community-of-practice committed to strengthening local and regional seafood systems, and I'm a fishmonger with Fishadelphia. In my spare time I'm a devoted recreational surfcaster!
Previously I worked as a reporter and producer for The Pulse, a public radio show about the people and places at the heart of health and science. Before that, I was a contributor to the New York Times science section, where I mostly covered genetics, evolution, and ecology.
I have a graduate degree in journalism from NYU's Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program, and a bachelor's degree in environmental science from Brown. As an undergrad I did a lot of marine ecology research, from monitoring ghost crabs on a Marine Corps base in North Carolina to studying mangrove harvesting in a community of Sama sea nomads in Indonesia. I did my thesis on the knotty relationship between fishing, herbivorous crabs, and carbon capture in Cape Cod salt marshes. I also experimented with making stop-motion animations like this, this, and this one.
I spent my formative teenage years in suburban New Jersey, where I edited my high school's literary magazine and was really into AP Bio. Before that, I picked dandelions during recess and tore through books while dangling off furniture in precarious positions. I was born and spent my early childhood in Philadelphia, gardening, cooking, and watching a lot of Chinese satellite TV with my grandparents. To this day I have a somewhat geriatric predilection for slowness and simplicity, which I'm constantly trying to balance with being a voracious learner in an ever-quickening and evolving world.
You can find my CV here.