Chau Lam is an experienced journalist currently serving as a Poverty and Economic Instability Reporter at New York Public Radio since December 2021. Prior to this role, Chau Lam worked at Newsday from 1994 to 2019 and held a position as a Reporter at the Los Angeles Times from June 1993 to May 1994, which was part of the Metpro Fellowship. Chau Lam completed education at New York University.