Julie Makinen
Julie Makinen is the Los Angeles Times’s Beijing bureau chief. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she studied Human Biology at Stanford and earned her master’s degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA. She has worked as a reporter and editor for the Washington Post and the International New York Times in Hong Kong and is a board member of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China.
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