Amy
Yi-Mei
Chen

Amy Yi-Mei Chen is a writer and editor with more than twenty years of journalism experience. After starting her career in newspapers and magazines, Chen joined LinkedIn's editorial team as one of the founding editors in 2012. She now has about 235,000 followers on LinkedIn.

Chen left LinkedIn to join Airbnb in 2019, where she was the managing editor for host communications during the pandemic. She was recruited in 2020 and again in 2022 to join two venture capital firms as VP of content, where she supported startup founders with editorial and content marketing strategy. She recently returned to Airbnb to lead a team of editors for a product launch that leveraged AI content tools.

A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Chen is the recipient of the National Press Club's Ellen Masin Persina scholarship and a Knight Ridder Scholar. She has also earned fellowships through the Maynard Institute's Executive Leadership Track (2019) and the Asian American Journalists Association's Executive Leadership Program (2021). In July 2025, she was awarded a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) for her nonfiction writing. In May 2026, she received a Poet & Author Fellowship from the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

Chen's memoir, DON'T TELL MA, is now on submission, and she is working on her first novel. Her writing has appeared in Real Simple, Travel + Leisure, Money magazine, CNN.com, GoodHousekeeping.com, Frommers.com, BudgetTravel.com, and newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle, Contra Costa Times (now East Bay Times), St. Paul Pioneer Press, Myrtle Beach Sun News, and other publications. Chen lives in Santa Barbara, Calif., with her husband and their Australian Shepherd.