Chrystal Li

Chrystal Li

Class of 2014 Los Angeles, CA

Chrystal Li is a second-year master’s journalism student at USC Annenberg and a senior producer for Impact. She has reported primarily on arts, culture and politics, most recently for Los Angeles magazine. Born and raised in L.A., Chrystal returned to her hometown for graduate school after working several years in marketing and content development at a Silicon Valley startup. She hopes now to pursue a career producing long-form stories for television or the web. Chrystal holds a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric from UC Berkeley. She likes travel, hip hop and speculative fiction. Follow her on Twitter at @chrystalyli.

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Fancy Rats

November 19, 2014

Their wild cousins may have a bad reputation, but fancy rats are popular pets and even compete in their own...

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Poem Store

April 22, 2014

A local farmer’s market attraction features a woman with a typewriter who can write poetry at the drop of a...