Rosalie is a senior reporter at Business Insider covering enterprise tech. She also founded and writes True Colors, a weekly newsletter that highlights reporting, essays, and multimedia work by women of color.
Formerly, she worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley and a freelance writer covering science, health, Asian American issues, and more.
Born and raised in the Chicago area, she studied journalism and computer science at Northwestern University. She’s now based in San Francisco. In her free time, she enjoys reading, running, cooking, photography, sketching, and Muay Thai.
In 2015, Rosalie received a research grant from Northwestern to report on Hakka youth cultural identity and efforts to revive the Hakka language in Taiwan. Her writing about this topic was published in Narratively, the Taipei Times, and the China Post.
In 2018, her feature on St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church in Chicago’s Chinatown was part of a series in Chicago magazine called The Last Holdouts, which received the 2018 City and Regional Magazine Association award for best online column.
Her writing has also been published in TIME, VICE, Pacific Standard, Teen Vogue, The Huffington Post, Inverse, and the books Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism and No Planet B.