How my mental illness became my superpower

Claire Hannah Collins is a former video journalist at the Los Angeles Times. She was born in Hong Kong and lived in Amman, Jordan, until she was 18. Before moving to Los Angeles, she studied photo and video journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ada Tseng is a former assistant editor with the features team at the Los Angeles Times. She previously was with the Utility Journalism Team, which published stories and information that helped people solve problems, answer questions and make big decisions about life in and around Los Angeles. From 2018 to 2020, Tseng led coverage of Orange County as TimesOC’s entertainment editor, and she co-hosts the Asian American pop culture history podcast “Saturday School.”