Born in Southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Diana Chao moved to the US with her family when she was 12 years old.
As a teenager, she founded Letters to Strangers, a youth-run nonprofit dedicated to destigmatizing mental illness and encouraging youth around the world to communicate and help each other through anonymous letter-writing exchanges.
Now a sophomore at Princeton University, Chao discusses what she has learned from her own struggles with mental illness, her experience as a Chinese-American immigrant and the detours she took to discover who she really is.
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