Anonymous ID: 451d4b Sept. 18, 2020, 10:17 a.m. No.10694889   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4895

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Born Wen Linyan (温麟衍) in Shanghai on January 27, 1983,[12] to Ying Sandy Zhang and Xiaolu Wen,[13] Wen moved with her parents to the U.S. when she was eight, by then having the English name Leana Sheryle Wen.[14] Granted political asylum, the Wen family lived in Compton and East Los Angeles in Southern California.[15][16][17] In 2003, Wen and her family became U.S. citizens.[16]

 

Wen's mother, who died of breast cancer in 2010, first worked as a hotel room cleaner and video store clerk before becoming an elementary school teacher.[17][18] Her father delivered newspapers and was a dishwasher, later serving as technology manager for The Chinese Daily News in Los Angeles.[3][17]

 

Attending the Early Entrance Program (EEP) at California State University, Los Angeles starting at age 13, Wen graduated summa cum laude at age 18 with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry, in 2001.[19][13][15] She received a Doctor of Medicine from Washington University School of Medicine and has two master's degrees, one in Economic and Social History and another in Modern Chinese Studies,[20] both from the Merton College, Oxford in England where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She also met her future husband, Sebastian Walker, during her time in England.[3