Rin-rin Yu is the editor-in-chief of publications at Howard University in Washington, D.C., including Howard Magazine, Bison Beat (the president's monthly newsletter) and the Dig (the news and information website). She has a diverse background in web, print, and television journalism, as well as marketing and business development. Previous places of employment include Washingtonian, where she led the custom division's editorial; the National Association of Home Builders, where she led digital communications strategy; Hanley Wood Business Media (now Zonda) where she was editor and reporter for the swimming pool industry (yes, pools!); and WHDH-TV (Boston), where she was the field producer for politics. For the past six years, she managed Silver Media Group, a strategic communications consultancy that she co-founded and where she worked with several universities including University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, University of Richmond and Georgetown University. She also has a photography business on the side (Red Kite Studios) where, pre-pandemic, she photographed bar/ bat mitzvahs. She has a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, an MBA from the University of Southern California, and a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis.