Qinling Li is a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on PBS Frontline, PBS American Masters, Scripps News, Al Jazeera English, Newsweek, and Atlas Obscura. In 2018, she briefly returned to Columbia Journalism School as an adjunct assistant professor. As a documentary filmmaker, she co-edited One of Many (2019), which was officially selected for The Art of Brooklyn Film Festivaland Out on Film, Atlanta’s LGBTQ Film Festival. She also collaborated with filmmaker Michelle Parkerson as Director of Photography and Editor on Fierceness Served! The ENIKAlley Coffeehouse (2021), a 34-minute documentary exploring the history of Black LGBTQ art in Washington, D.C. The film screened at the Black Alphabet Film Festival (2021), DC International Film Festival (2022), DC/DOX Film Festival (2023), and BlackStar Film Festival (2023). In 2021, Qinling won First Place in the Gender and Society category at the Southern California Journalism Awards for her reporting on trans activists advocating for sex worker rights, and Second Place in the National Political/Government Reporting category for her short film The Reawakening of the Black Gun-Rights Movement. During the 2024 U.S. presidential election, she co-wrote and co-produced American Voices 2024 for PBS Frontline, a 90-minute film following eight Americans across seven states. She also wrote and edited Cobalt Miners (Al Jazeera Witness, 2025), a 25-minute documentary featuring a cobalt mining manager at the Shabara mine. Qinling is the co-founder and director of DEC8 Productions and a member of the Writers Guild of America East, Overseas Press Club of America, Asian American Documentary Network, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Video Consortium, and Journalists of Color.…Qinling Li is a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on PBS Frontline, PBS American Masters, Scripps News, Al Jazeera English, Newsweek, and Atlas Obscura. In 2018, she briefly returned to Columbia Journalism School as an adjunct assistant professor. As a documentary filmmaker, she co-edited One of Many (2019), which was officially selected for The Art of Brooklyn Film Festivaland Out on Film, Atlanta’s LGBTQ Film Festival. She also collaborated with filmmaker Michelle Parkerson as Director of Photography and Editor on Fierceness Served! The ENIKAlley Coffeehouse (2021), a 34-minute documentary exploring the history of Black LGBTQ art in Washington, D.C. The film screened at the Black Alphabet Film Festival (2021), DC International Film Festival (2022), DC/DOX Film Festival (2023), and BlackStar Film Festival (2023). In 2021, Qinling won First Place in the Gender and Society category at the Southern California Journalism Awards for her reporting on trans activists advocating for sex worker rights, and Second Place in the National Political/Government Reporting category for her short film The Reawakening of the Black Gun-Rights Movement. During the 2024 U.S. presidential election, she co-wrote and co-produced American Voices 2024 for PBS Frontline, a 90-minute film following eight Americans across seven states. She also wrote and edited Cobalt Miners (Al Jazeera Witness, 2025), a 25-minute documentary featuring a cobalt mining manager at the Shabara mine. Qinling is the co-founder and director of DEC8 Productions and a member of the Writers Guild of America East, Overseas Press Club of America, Asian American Documentary Network, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Video Consortium, and Journalists of Color.WWWW…