Patricia Yao is a freelance writer who has published two books with her husband, Joseph. She studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and completed a Master’s degree at Harvard University. On weekends, she is a researcher at CityLab in San Francisco and is working on a book on the city of San Francisco. You can follow her on Twitter as @PatriciaYao, or email her at [email protected].

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