| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | No confirmed information is available on the year she was born. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | 1 |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | Mixed |
| Nationality | American |
| What Happened to Bethany Allen Ebrahimian? | Bethany is a reporter for Axios based in Taipei. She is the author of the weekly Axios China newsletter, and she covers China’s role in the world. |
Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian is the China reporter at Axios, who writes high-impact investigations, exclusives, and breaking news about China, with a focus on China’s influence in the US and abroad.
- Having spent close to 4 years in China, Bethany is something of an expert in all things China. She speaks and reads Chinese fluently.
- Bethany’s work on various topics of how China influences the world has impacted the U.S. national debate about China and affected legislation introduced in Congress.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Bethany holds a Master’s degree in East Asian studies from Yale University and a graduate certificate from the Johns Hopkins SAIS-Nanjing Center.
- She has been an alumnus of Peking University (Chinese Language Intensive Academic Year Program, 2008-09) and Middlebury College (Chinese and Japanese Language, 2009-10).
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Bethany was born in Abilene, Texas, which she describes as a “dusty former Cowtown” 180 miles west of Dallas. Abilene has one of the highest number of churches per population in the US.
- As a kid, Bethany traveled a lot and she reminisces about her family vacations to Austria, Turkey, and Kenya.
- Bethany’s husband is a Muslim immigrant from Iran, who came to the country in the early 2000s. Her family was quite welcoming to her partner, despite the differences in religion and culture. The couple now has a young son.
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- Currently, Bethany works for Axios as a Reporter.
- Before joining Axios, she served as the lead reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ (ICIJ) “China Cables” project. For the “China Cables” project, Bethany was also a finalist for the Batten Medal for Courage in Journalism.
- She was previously a staff editor and contributing reporter at the Foreign Policy magazine, and a Chinese Language Teaching Fellow at Yale University.
- Her writing has appeared in many of the top media vehicles such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She has also appeared as a guest on NPR, CNN, C-SPAN, the BBC, PRI, Al Jazeera, ABC Radio, and Deutsche Welle.
- Other than China, Bethany has also covered the 2017 German federal elections as a Berlin-based correspondent.
- The talented reporter has also reported from Russia, Germany, Turkey, Austria, and Japan. She was a 2017 Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Germany and a 2016 Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center.
- In 2018, Bethany had applied for a journalist visa with the international news agency AFP. However, after several months of waiting, AFP was told that if they desired to fill this position, they have to propose another candidate as the visa for Bethany was disapproved. Following the visa denial, Bethany conveyed her affection for the Chinese people and voiced her interest and enthusiasm to return to China at some point in time. She added that her relationship with the Chinese Embassy in Washington had deteriorated since she began writing on issues related to the influence of the Chinese government.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Bethany received the Robert D. G. Lewis Watchdog Award, the top prize awarded annually by the Society of Professional Journalists for an expose on the major leak of classified Chinese government documents revealing the inner workings of mass internment camps in Xinjiang.
- Such is her reputation that she is a sought-after speaker on Chinese influence operations, both in the United States and around the world.
- Bethany has been invited to give talks at reputed institutions like Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, the German Marshall Fund, Jamestown Foundation, the Hudson Institute, Project 2049 Institute, the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs, the National War College, the State Department, and elsewhere, and in Canada and Taiwan.
- Bethany is fluent in four languages and lists them out as Chinese, English, German and Japanese.
- She has a long list of publications and projects. Her skills include Research, Foreign Policy, Policy Analysis among many others.
- Contact Email – bethany.allen@protonmail.com
