Yi Lu is a Ph.D. student and graduate assistant at the Department of Sociology, SUNY at Albany.

Her research interests lie in class and inequality, immigration and transnationalism, parenting, and education. She is now studying how social class impacts parenting patterns and educational choices in Chinese immigrant families. Firstly, in a broader picture, Yi is desired to understand how macro mechanisms, specifically class, gender, and race, intersectionally produce micro-level inequality. Second, she is eager to know how transnational contexts produce and reproduce these inequalities.

Born and raised in China, Yi did her undergrad in Taipei, Taiwan. She holds dual bachelor's degrees in Journalism and Economics from Chinese Culture University. She also went to the master's program in Asian-Pacific Studies at National Cheng-chi University. After spending five years in Taiwan, she came to the US and embarked on her graduate study in sociology at SUNY at Albany. Living and studying in different social contexts stimulates Yi to constantly reflect the dynamic between being a majority and being a minority.

Yi likes bubble tea, coffee, plants, and Samoyed. Besides reading and writing, Yi enjoys playing the piano, listening to jazz, and taking a stroll. Keeping walking both physically and mentally enriches Yi's imagination in both daily life and academic endeavors.