Eugenia Lee

Eugenia Lee is an ethnographer and qualitative researcher. Born in Queens, New York and raised in central New Jersey, Eugenia grew up in a strong Taiwanese immigrant community where she learned to navigate between Taiwanese and American cultural identities.

My name is Eugenia, and I'm a former international development worker turned social impact ethnographer. I like talking to and observing people, recording and sharing stories, and understanding why people do the things they do. I'm passionate about leveraging ethnographic insights to benefit people (especially marginalized and low-income communities), whether through thoughtful policy, product or program design.

A Taiwanese immigrant’s first days in America were about getting by

Shwuling Shieh came to the United States from Taiwan in 1984. "We didn’t get scholarships, but we came and worked. So as soon as I got off the plane, I started working," she said.

A Taiwanese immigrant’s first days in America were about getting by