Alia Wong is an award winning journalist based in Washington, D.C. Alia Wong writes and edits for The Atlantic , covering education and related topics. ^[1]

Alia Wong graduated Summa cum laude from Boston University with a Bachelor's degree in journalism and Latin American studies.

Alia Wong formerly worked for Honolulu Civil Beat, where she reported on K-12 and higher education.

Alia Wong was the recipient of two national awards from the Education Writers Association for work she did for Civil Beat, including the first place prize for a diverse collection of education-related news articles and second place for a series she wrote on several charter schools on Hawai‘i’s Big Island.

Alia Wong also won a first-place prize from the Society of Professional Journalists Hawaii chapter for her story A Lost Child of Kalaupapa, a piece she wrote in college as a Civil Beat intern.

Wong was born and raised in Hawaii.