<p>Natalie A.E. Young is a Ph.D student within the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing a B.A. at Dartmouth College in 2010, she spent three years in China. Working as a Social Studies and Literature teacher at an international school primarily attended by children from affluent Chinese families, she developed an interest in international education as well as educational inequality in China. &nbsp;Her Master’s thesis focused on international schools in China, arguing that in some cases they represent a “second chance” for wealthy children who face barriers to status attainment within the standard educational system, as well as a “safe haven” from competition and stress. Her other work, including her dissertation, continues to explore issues of socioeconomic inequality among children and adolescents in China, with an emphasis on education as well as the advantages of children from affluent families. Much of the previous literature has focused on rural poverty and disadvantage, with less attention to the implications of an emerging affluent class for childhood and educational inequality in China. Finally, as a result of her time teaching at an international school in Beijing, she continues to be interested in the topic of cosmopolitanism and nationalism among Chinese youth.</p>