Wen was born in China during the Great Cultural Revolution. Being victims of the horrific atrocity that killed two million intellectuals and destroyed traditional Chinese culture, Wen’s parents had mixed feelings about her education. Despite their discouragement, Wen eventually won a national prize at a science competition when she was sixteen years old. Hence, she was accepted into a top university for undergraduate study. In 1994, Wen came to the United States for graduate school and received a doctoral degree in Biology at the California Institute of Technology in 2000. Dr. Chen currently works as a staff scientist for the institute. Because of her personal experience of being brainwashed in China, she decided to be a voice for the voiceless. Since 2012, she has given over 200 presentations to community organizations about Chinese culture, history and human rights.

 

Millions of Chines people have been arrested for their spiritual beliefs or political views. They have not only been tortured and forced to do slave labor, but also killed for their organs. While it takes two-to-three years in the United States to wait for matching organs, it only takes two to four weeks in China. The state-sanctioned organ harvesting towards prisoners of conscience has been operated by the Chinese police, legal and military system. Dr. Chen presented evidence and international responses about forced organ harvesting in China. She also discussed how the Chinese Communist Party penetrates U.S. society to influence decision makers. Other areas she touched upon included: the origins of the human rights movement in China which began in 2004, innovations that allow people to bypass China’s Internet information blockade, the work of human rights lawyers in China, the growing movement of quitting the Chinese Communist Party, and the more than 220,000 lawsuits filed in China against former dictator Jiang Zemin.