Ming Lin is Program Coordinator for the New City Critics Fellowship — a joint initiative between the Urban Design Forum and the Architectural League of New York. A born and raised New Yorker, she has been studying the informal economies of Canal Street, New York City’s counterfeit epicenter, with findings taking the form of writing, installation, site-specific interventions and archive for the past 5 years. She holds a degree from the Center for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths.