Holly Yu Tung Chen
Denver
Holly Yu Tung Chen is a journalist, routesetter, and Denver-based reporter for The Click.
Holly is Taiwan-born, and Hong Kong-raised before she packed her life into a suitcase and moved across the Pacific. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Alpinist, Climbing Magazine, Sharp End Publishing, and the American Alpine Club publications. She is also a contributing writer, and produces a podcast, “the Impact Driver,” with the Climbing Business Journal. Holly received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she received the Bertha N. Melkonian Award for Undergraduate Research and the Humanities Undergraduate Research Award for her work “Don Quixote in China.”
To her writer friends, she moonlights as a routesetter; to her routesetter friends, she moonlights as a journalist.
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November 10, 2024
Peanuts and Politics Collide at the Florida Festival
As festival-goers enjoy the usual fun, political tents stir conversation ahead of the November vote.
November 7, 2024
Colorado Voters Reject Big Cat Hunting Ban
Voters reject the proposed ban on hunting mountain lions, bobcats, and lynx, challenging expectations and highlighting divisions in wildlife management philosophies.
October 14, 2024
Colorado Ballot Initiative Targets Big Cat ‘Trophy Hunting’
Advocates push for a statewide ban on the hunting of mountain lions, bobcats, and lynx.
October 7, 2024
Colorado Begins Voting on a State Constitutional Right to Abortion
Amendment 79 seeks to secure constitutional protections for abortion access and public funding, 36 years after the state’s last vote on the issue. Voting began on September 21.
June 26, 2024
Podcast: Stage For Change – No Theater on a Dead Planet
After climate activists disrupted the Broadway revival of "An Enemy of the People," Holly Chen and Genevieve Hartnett spoke with eyewitnesses, experts, and the activists to uncover what theater, and all of us, should be doing to address the climate crisis.