(Photo courtesy of Gary Christensen) Shuping Wang, 59, died on Sept. 21 of an apparent heart attack while hiking in Mill Creek Canyon. Wang in 1995 exposed egregious practices that spread HIV and hepatitis in for-profit blood and plasma centers in rural China. She moved to the United States amid retaliation.
Erin is a reporter who has previously been an outdoor columnist and worked the crime beat. She was the lead reporter on The Tribune's Pulitzer-winning coverage of campus sexual assault. She has worked at newspapers in Michigan and Iowa and taught English for two years at teacher-training colleges in China.