Common Ground with Yutian Li

Healing in Community: Resilience Practices for Youth Facing Mental Health Challenges

Yutian Li is an award-winning, internationally recognized human rights activist, youth advocate, and public speaker. She immigrated to the U.S. at age 11 without speaking English; and has since given keynotes at the Massachusetts State House, MIT, Boston Children’s Hospital, and more.

She is currently an undergraduate at Harvard College and a psychology researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where her work focuses on how racial discrimination impacts immigrants’ and Asian American youths’ racial socialization and mental health. She has presented her research at international conferences, including the American Public Health Association Annual Conference.