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| Born | December 1991 (age 32–33) Chengdu, China |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) |
| Political party | Democratic |
Lindy Li (born 1991) is an American politician, political contributor and the Asian-American outreach director for Joe Biden's Presidential Campaign.
Early Life
Li was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province China. Li was raised by her grandmother for the first 3 to 4 years of her life. She immigrated to the United States when she was five and is a first generation immigrant. Li attended the Agnes Irwin School and graduated in 2008. In high school, Li interned for Pennsylvania Congressman and 2020 Presidential Candidate, Joe Sestak. She worked in both his Media, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. offices.
Education
Li attended Princeton University and was elected class President at age 17. She became the first woman at Princeton to hold the position of class president for all four years. At Princeton, she started the Do It In the Dark campaign, which encourage students around the country to reduce their carbon footprint. She wrote her Senior thesis on the ethics of climate change legislation and graduated in 2012 with a Philosophy degree.
Career
Before entering politics, Li worked as an financial advisor and investment banker for Merck and Morgan Stanley.
In 2013, Li was invited to a conference in Dublin, Ireland to discuss the intersection between the private sector and climate change. She met with and discussed various topics with former US Vice President Al Gore, former Irish President Mary Robinson, businessman Richard Blum and others. In 2016, she spoke on the floor of the United Nations for the organization's World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. That same year, she was invited to the White House for the The United State of Women Summit.
Li has twice unsuccessfully run for Congress in Pennsylvania's 6th and 7th congressional districts. Her run for Congress in 2016, at age 24, made her the youngest female Congressional candidate in U.S. history.
Currently, Li serves as a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. Li also hosts a weekly TV series, Listening with Lindy Li, which airs on cable television in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. Li was featured in a 2020 Fox News documentary titled "My Socialism Nightmare."
She currently serves as the Women’s Co-Chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee and served as the Treasurer for the Pennsylvania Young Democrats from 2017 to 2020.
Li faced backlash from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Bernie Sanders supporters after she stated she will "absolutely not" vote for Sanders if he becomes the Democratic nominee for President.
Li is also a surrogate for Joe Biden's 2020 Presidential campaign. She assists the campaign with Asian American outreach and will be a delegate for Biden at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Personal Life
Li serves as the youngest Trustee of the American Association for Cancer Research and serves as her classes Alumni Class President at Princeton. Her mother, Jessica, and her father, Richard Li, a Chinatown, Philadelphia real estate company owner, are both Chinese.
References
- "First Princeton, Now the House: Lindy Li In Politics". The Phoenix. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- "School Hosts 3rd Annual Leading for Change Conference". Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- "Princeton Students Do It In The Dark. What About You?". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- "Interview with Lindy Li". Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- "An Exclusive Interview with Lindy Li, The Youngest Female Congressional Candidate in U.S. History". Cornell Business Review. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- "25-Year-Old House Candidate Withdraws from Pennsylvania Race". NBC. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- "How to Be Resilient after a Loss with Political Contributor Lindy Li". Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- "Prominent young Democrat steps down over 'bullying from Bernie Sanders supporters'". Retrieved 2020-03-08.