Willow Taylor Chiang Yang

Willow earned a BA with distinction in American political economy (interdisciplinary studies) and a BA in philosophy. She has lived over the past four years at the busy intersection of her self-made major: on campus, she researches political polarization with Dr. Luc Bovens, works for Dr. Klaus Larres on the international Krasno Global Events Series, serves on the Provost Advisory Committee, leads the Executive Order Task Force, and tutors economics and statistics. She also hosted an international policy conference, led voter mobilization campaigns, and is an Agora Fellow. The Morehead-Cain Program has taken her from civil discourse initiatives at Princeton and Stanford, to the German Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C., to philanthropy research in London, to cemeteries in Shanghai. The bulk of her last year has been writing her senior honors thesis on the relationship between socioeconomic status and career decision-making factors. She has been lucky to find community with the UNC club volleyball team, the Morehead-Cain Asian American Affinity Group, and Carrboro’s TABLE food bank.