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Noa Ren

Election Year: 2016

Election Constituency: China

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: China & Linacre 2016

Noa Ren

Biography

Naying is a senior student at Tsinghua University studying English Language and Literature. She has co-founded the China LGBT+ Youth Network, a Chinese NGO that promotes LGBT+ rights with a focus on university community building. She has extensive volunteer experience both at the Beijing LGBT Centre as well as at the LGBT North West centre in Manchester. Longer-term, she hopes to help develop the theoretical foundations of gender studies in China, in service of the Chinese LGBT movement.

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