Harvard-Westlake Honors Student Documents SoCal Sweatshop
Remember the name Elaine Tang. The Harvard-Westlake student’s very impressive accomplishments suggest we’ll be hearing a lot more from her in the coming years.
This enterprising 17-year-old interned in Beijing last summer with animation firm Xing Xing Digital, while also studying advance Chinese at Peking University. With the help of company CEO Lifeng Wang, she made El Monte, an animated short about the true 1995 story of 72 Thai and Hispanic workers held captive and forced to work 18-hour days at a Southern California garment factory.
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