Lindy Li

Lindy Li (born 1991) is an American political commentator, campaign advisor, and former political candidate serving on the Asian American outreach team for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign. She also serves as the Women's Co-Chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee.[1]

Not to be confused with Lindy Lee.

Lindy Li
Born (1991-12-14) December 14, 1991
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Alma materPrinceton University (BA)
Political partyDemocratic

Early life and education

Li was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China and immigrated with her family to the United States when she was five years old.[2] She spent much of her childhood in Malvern, Pennsylvania.[3] Li attended the Agnes Irwin School, a private college-preparatory day school for girls, graduating in 2008.[4] Her father is a real estate agent. Li has a younger brother named Jeffrey.[5] In high school, Li interned for Pennsylvania Congressman and 2020 Presidential Candidate, Joe Sestak.

Li attended Princeton University and was elected class President at age 17. She became the first woman at Princeton to hold the position of class president for all four years. At Princeton, she started the Do It In the Dark campaign, which encouraged students around the country to reduce their carbon footprint.[5] She wrote her senior thesis on the ethics of climate change legislation and graduated in 2012 with a Philosophy degree.[6]

Career

Before entering politics, Li worked as an financial analyst for Morgan Stanley.[7]

In 2016, at age 24, Li became a candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district. She was the youngest female Congressional candidate in U.S. history.[7][8] Three months before the Democratic primary, she transferred her candidacy to the 6th congressional district, citing advice from party leaders.[7] Li withdrew her candidacy in April, 2016, after a court challenge that she did not have enough signatures from registered Democrats in her own district.[9]

In 2018, Li was one of ten candidates competing in the Democratic primary for Congress in Pennsylvania's new fifth district.[10] The 2018 Democratic primary was won by Mary Gay Scanlon.[11][12]

Currently, Li serves as a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC.[13] Li also hosts a weekly TV series, Listening with Lindy Li, which airs on cable television in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. Li was featured in a 2020 Fox News documentary titled "My Socialism Nightmare."

Li previously served as the Treasurer for the Pennsylvania Young Democrats from 2017 to 2020. Li resigned the post after conflict with group leaders over her Twitter posts critical of Bernie Sanders and his supporters.[14] Li alleged her resignation was a real-life example of bullying by Bernie Bros; the club president denied this, saying that her resignation was voluntary.[15][16]

After the 2020 Super Tuesday primary elections, Li appeared on Al Jazeera to debate Sanders supporter Linda Sarsour concerning which Democrat would be best to defeat Donald Trump.[17] During the interview, Li stated that she would not vote for Bernie Sanders if he became the Democratic nominee.[18]

References
  1. "LINDY LI". Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  2. "First Princeton, Now the House: Lindy Li In Politics". The Phoenix. December 8, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  3. Tamari, Jonathan (January 6, 2016). "Congressional candidate makes district switch". Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2020. Democrat Lindy Li now plans to run in the Chester County-based Sixth District, after beginning her campaign last summer for the seat in the Delaware County-based Seventh.
  4. "School Hosts 3rd Annual Leading for Change Conference". Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  5. Loftus, Lauren (August 14, 2015). "The congressional kid: How a millennial plans to make it to the Capitol". Washington Post. Retrieved March 14, 2020. She started a campus-wide initiative to curb excessive energy use called Do It in the Dark. She thought about going to law school — a means to an eventual end in politics — but landed a high-paying job in finance instead.
  6. "Princeton Students Do It In The Dark. What About You?". Forbes. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  7. "25-Year-Old House Candidate Withdraws from Pennsylvania Race". NBC. April 4, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2020. Li, a Princeton graduate who emigrated from China at the age of five, quit her job in May as a financial analyst with Morgan Stanley to run in Pennsylvania’s 7th District near Philadelphia. But three months before the April 26 primary, Li switched to the neighboring 6th District, where she grew up, at the request of local and state party leadership, she said.
  8. "An Exclusive Interview with Lindy Li, The Youngest Female Congressional Candidate in U.S. History". Cornell Business Review. December 22, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2020. In high school, I interned for my Congressman, and right now I’m a political contributor for MSNBC and NBC News. MSNBC is a TV channel, and NBC News publishes news articles online and is also one of the nation’s foremost broadcasting networks. I also help lead Asian-American political and fundraising efforts for the Biden campaign.
  9. Tamari, Jonathan (April 2, 2016). "Lindy Li withdraws from Chester County Congressional race". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved March 14, 2020. Attorney Kevin Greenberg, representing the Parrish campaign and three allied objectors, had said Li's petition included numerous flaws, including signatures from unregistered voters, voters from other districts and registered Republicans and independents. Li said the main problem was that her notary failed to keep a proper log.
  10. Otterbein, Holly (May 4, 2018). "A Q&A with Lindy Li, an ex-wealth manager running for Congress PA#5". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved March 14, 2020. Li, 27, supports Medicare-for-All, debt-free college and a ban on assault weapons. She is one of 10 Democrats in the primary for Pennsylvania's Fifth District, which is largely based in Delaware County but also includes part of Philadelphia and Montgomery County.
  11. NYT Election results Pennsylvania primaries 2018
  12. "The New Pennsylvania Congressional Map, District by District". New York Times. February 19, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2020. The old moose-and-antlers-like Seventh District might have been the most gerrymandered district in the nation...The new Fifth...includes all of Delaware County. It represents a natural political community: the Philadelphia suburbs.
  13. "How to Be Resilient after a Loss with Political Contributor Lindy Li". Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  14. Savodnik, Peter (February 21, 2020). ""CANCELED BECAUSE OF A VIDEO YOU DIDN'T EVEN MAKE": INSIDE A BERNIE-BIDEN TROLL WAR". Vanity Fair. Retrieved March 14, 2020. She "loves" Biden, but she really wants to beat Trump—and, most of all, she wants Sanders crushed.
  15. Brennan, Chris (February 18, 2020). "Lindy Li says 'Bernie Bro' bullying contributed to her resignation from Pa. Young Democrats". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved March 10, 2020. Li, running to be a convention delegate for former Vice President Joe Biden, has become a virulent online critic of socialism and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. She claims leaders of the Pennsylvania Young Democrats pressured her to resign Monday as the group’s treasurer because of that criticism.
  16. "Prominent young Democrat steps down over 'bullying from Bernie Sanders supporters'". February 18, 2020. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  17. "And then there were two: Bernie Sanders vs Joe Biden". Al Jazeera. March 6, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2020. I think the American people are speaking and they are saying we don't want a candidate whose staff and supporters are rife with toxic individuals
  18. "WATCH: Biden Backer Lindy Li Criticized for Saying She Will 'Absolutely Not' Vote for Sanders If He Becomes Democratic Nominee". Common Dreams. March 7, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2020. I'm going to vote blue all the way down except for president...I'm absolutely not okay with it, but I'm also almost probably equally terrified and traumatized by the prospect of a Sanders presidency
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