Nick Wong

Nick Wong is a graduate from the University of Washington, currently living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has spent the last decade exploring culture through the sport of boxing and is working towards his goal of building boxing gyms around the world. His work can be seen here
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Immigrant food entrepreneurs get support from new nonprofit

by Nick Wong
Seattle-based MarketShare wants to boost the culinary scene by helping immigrant and refugee food entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground.
Jun 8, 2015
Protest against the World Cup in Copacabana on June 12, 2014. (Photo from Agência Brasil, a public Brazilian news agency)

What the World Cup loss means to Brazil

by Nick Wong
After living in Brazil for over a year, I had mixed feelings on the arrival of the World Cup.
Jul 22, 2014
A resident of "Nova Holanda," a shantytown in Rio de Janeirno, holds a sign reading "No Violence" at a memorial for victims killed in a police incursion. (Photo by Nick Wong)

Seattleite in Brazil says protests bring little relief for the poor

by Nick Wong
More people were killed recently in a single police incursion into a Rio shantytown than in a month of raucous protests around the country. 
Jul 16, 2013