Zoe Yu

Women's Lunch Place | Boston, Massachusetts

Zoe Yu is a Taiwanese-American writer from Texas. At Harvard, she studies a self-designed Special Concentration in Public Thinking, which explores how political ideas are shaped and contested in narrative form. She has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time magazine, CNN Opinion, and The Audacity by Roxane Gay. As an intern on the Opinions desk of The Boston Globe, she writes a column covering questions at the heart of contemporary gender relations: the rise of anti-feminism, the anxieties of modern masculinity, the importance of cross-gender friendships, and the left’s feminist commitments.

Zoe has conducted archival research at the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library and worked on a book project for a D.C.-based think tank about the growing gender divide in American politics. On campus, she serves on the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson, was formerly an Associate Culture Editor at The Harvard Political Review, and chaired the Kennedy School Institute of Politics’ Fellows and Study Groups program. She has worked at the White House Initiative for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, and at the film and TV entertainment company Janet Yang Productions. She is the recipient of the 2026 Thomas Wood Award in Journalism.

This summer, Zoe will work at Women’s Lunch Place, a shelter in Boston for women experiencing hunger, homelessness, and poverty.