Lily Qi is a Maryland state delegate and the author of Elected American: From Red China to Blue Maryland, a memoir about her journey from China’s Cultural Revolution to an American state legislature—and an immigrant community finding its voice in American democracy.

Delegate Qi has served in the Maryland General Assembly since 2019, thirty years after arriving in the United States alone as an international student. She’s the first person born in China elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. As the only U.S. state legislator who lived through China’s Cultural Revolution, she brings a rare cross-system perspective to identity, belonging, and what it means to be an American. A longtime cultural broker, she is a leading voice on the contemporary Asian American experience, immigrant civic participation, and election reform.

Delegate Qi's work and story have been featured by The Washington Post, NPR, The Wire China, FOX 5 DC, Washingtonian, and other U.S. and international media. Radio Free Asia turned her story into a graphic novel in Mandarin. Elected American was a Politics & Prose nonfiction bestseller and a finalist for the New American Voices Award.

Angela An is an eight-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and anchor of 10TV/WBNS News at Four. She also holds a national and two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and has received recognition from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the Ohio State Highway Patrol, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Since joining WBNS in 2000, Angela has anchored the morning news for nearly two decades and now leads 10TV’s Boomtown series, exploring the challenges and solutions shaping central Ohio’s growth. Her reporting has taken her to Sri Lanka to cover the devastating 2004 tsunami and behind the scenes in New York for Jungle Jack Hanna’s final appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.

A dedicated community advocate, Angela was named one of Dress for Success Columbus’s “10 of 10 Women Leaders” and received MADD of Central Ohio’s Driven to Save Lives Award. She serves on the Columbus Council on World Affairs board and Breakthrough T1D’s Advisory Board. She also co-founded the news magazine program China Near and Far.