Cherry Leung is a senior at Macaulay Honors College, Baruch, with areas of concentration in Psychopathology and Neurodiversity, and “Queering Asians: Texts and Textures of othered identities,” the latter concerning intersections of Asian Studies, Gender Theory, and Literature.

As a 2025 Critical Language Scholarship alumna for Japan and former environmental psychology researcher, she seeks not only to build connections through language and literature, but also to investigate how art is used to connect communities and rebuild post-environmental crises in East Asia. She hopes to explore how mental health strides have been made in East Asian countries and diaspora communities alike.

Newly anointed as an opera enthusiast and student, her upcoming novel extracts from Breton folklore, the history of the Ballet and Opera, queer theory, psychoanalysis, theories of Orientalism, and the politics of performance. In the future, she plans to become a very good lyric soprano and attain a PhD in English Literature.