Alicia Chen is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker whose work focuses on human rights, forced migration, and social justice. She is the 2025 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow, selected by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF). Born and raised in Taiwan, she has worked for The Washington Post's China Bureau, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, and Al Jazeera English, among others.

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In 2022, she traveled to Necoclí, Colombia, where she became one of the first reporters to uncover the exodus of Chinese nationals fleeing Beijing’s 'Zero-Covid' policy and political repression through the Darién Gap. Her coverage earned an Honorable Mention from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) and led to her first feature documentary, Walk The Line—a trek through the Darién with Chinese migrants en route to the U.S. The film was selected by This Human World, Vienna’s international human rights film festival, and won an AAJA Journalism Excellence Award in long-form video storytelling.

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Alicia is also a co-author of "War in Ukraine" (《烏克蘭的不可能戰爭》), which documents firsthand stories on Russia's full-scale invasion for Chinese-speaking readers. With support from the Pulitzer Center, she reported on Ukraine’s mental health support amid the ongoing war. 

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Her earlier cross-border investigation exposed the dangers faced by fisheries observers aboard Taiwan- and China-owned fishing vessels, as part of the project “Oceans Inc.”, which received SOPA Awards for both Environmental and Investigative Reporting.

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Alicia holds a master’s degree from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), where she researched the well-being of Syrian refugees among anti-refugee sentiment in Lebanon. Over the past seven years, she has reported across East Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. She writes in Mandarin and English, and also speaks Spanish and Taiwanese.