Such events include weekly conservation groups in Mandarin and Japanese and cultural on-campus events. The position also includes promoting through business and student outreach, as well as social media marketing on the center’s platforms. Previously, Nielsen has helped design product packaging for L. International and marketing emails for The Enclosed. She also writes for the student-run paper, the Foghorn. On the Foghorn’s behalf, she had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Kwan, a best selling Singaporean-American author of the book series Crazy Rich Asians, who visited campus in October 2017 to discuss his three novels, film adaptation, the changing perceptions of wealth in Asia, and Asian-Americans’ reactions to his work.
In regards to Asian culture, Nielsen is a fanatic of the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, or “sati.” Nielsen has been trained in mindfulness meditation to better understand her wandering and bustling mind. Mindfulness is a buzzword in America and has recently been featured this year on the cover of Time Magazine. She hopes Western cultures can embrace and bring Eastern meditation practices into their daily lives to achieve “passaddhi” or serenity.