Wendy Wei

Wendy Wei is a Chicago-based freelance journalist and the immigration editor at South Side Weekly. Her work explores how migrants are pitted against other marginalized groups to compete over scarce resources—whether that be in Darfur or the US—and how solidarity can be built. Wendy’s work has been supported by the International Center for Investigative Journalism and International Women Media Foundation. She has held fellowships with the Chicago Reader and Juneteenth Productions. In 2023, her print and audio reporting on interracial solidarity were finalists for the 2023 Peter Lisagor Awards and Chicago Journalism Associations' Awards.