In an economy where everyone is overqualified, having an advanced degree is virtually worthless.
Kai Ma is a writer and columnist whose work has appeared in New York, Newsday, Nerve, and Time Out New York. She began covering race and Asian-American communities after helping to produce Matters of Race, a PBS documentary that explored the impact of ethnicity in one of the most diverse hospitals in Los Angeles. In South Korea, she also reported on North Korean defectors and their adjustment into capitalist Seoul.