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Amelia is an award-winning, investigative journalist of Uyghur and Chinese descent. Her work has been published in The New Republic, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Sunday Review, among other publications.
She is the author of Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods. It was shortlisted for the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, co-administered by Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
In 2016, the New York Press Association awarded Amelia first place in feature writing for her article on the devastation of an immigrant taxi driver as he fell behind on his mortgage.
In 2017, the LA Press Club awarded her first place in investigative journalism for her undercover reporting on the exploitation of smuggled immigrants who are recruited to work in Chinese restaurants.
In 2018, the LA Press Club awarded Amelia first place in Gender/LGBTQ Reporting for her coverage of sexual violence in Native American communities.
Amelia has given interviews about her work on NPR and C-SPAN. She received her BA in Literary Studies from the New School.