Christina Larson is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy magazine and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. She has reported widely from across China and Southeast Asia; her essays and reportage on China, the environment, climate change, and civil society have appeared in the The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Smithsonian, TIME, Washington Monthly, and the Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. She has been a guest on NPR, WNYC, an d CNN Radio.
Prior to joining Foreign Policy, Christina was managing editor at Washington Monthly and a freelance correspondent for Christian Science Monitor in China. She has been a visiting fellow at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.; the East-West Center in Honolulu, HI; and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford Universi ty in Britain. An avid runner and painter, she is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, and holds a B.A. from Stanford University, where she cut her teeth in journalism as the international news editor at the Stanford Daily.
In 2008, she was named a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists (international reporting). One of her articles on Chinese environmentalist Yong Yang will be included in the forthcoming collection of “best of China” writing, China From the Ground Up. This site collects some of her published writing.
You can email her at christina [dot] larson @ gmail [dot] com.
SELECT RADIO INTERVIEWS
Marketplace Morning Report: “Half of World’s Top Global Cities Asian”
WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show: “Xinhua to the West?”
WTOP’s Morning Report: “Copenhagen Climate Summit”
WBUR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook: “A New Breed of Environmentalists”
SPEAKING
Christina has been an invited speaker at Oxford University, Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), University of California, Los Angeles, Cornell University, University of California Los Angeles, the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, the World Affairs Council, the New America Foundation, and elsewhere.
Christina Larson 
