Changhong Zhang is a PhD Candidate in cultural anthropology at Brandeis University whose works focus on migrant labor, mining in the Global South, and lives shaping and shaped by large-scale labor migration, particularly in the rural areas of China. Her ethnographic films include When Truck Leaves Home (2024), an observational short following a Chinese trucker’s 35-hour drive to transport coal between provinces. This film won the Best Shorts Competition 2024 and was selected at the Ethnografilm Festival in Paris 2025. Her second film, in post-production, traces the drastic changes a rural village has lived with in the past two decades, where most men have become truckers. Changhong’s multimodal dissertation research examining gold miners in Colombia is funded by the NSF.