Yanhuan Wang

Yanhuan Wang

Nickname: Alva
Year: 2013
US Campus Assignment: UC Berkeley
University: Sun Yat-sen University
Description: Yanhuan "Alva" Wang is a fourth year undergraduate studying Tourism Management at Sun-Yat Sen University in Guangzhou, China. In collaboration with the Chief Director of the Global Sustainable Leadership Forum, Yanhuan created the China Youth Sustainable Development Report by interviewing youth in the community. She was invited to share this report at Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development as part of the China Youth Delegates. She has served as the Media Coordinator for both the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Greenpeace. At UNEP, she focused on analyzing public environmental policy as well as translated official reports. She conducted interviews and wrote articles that covered events hosted by Green Peace. As a Marketing and Communication intern at the United Nations World Tourism Organization, Yanhuan provided administrative support, wrote articles about tourism, and compiled reports. Yanhuan is an intern at UC Berkeley's Labor Center.