Charlie Custer is the Founder of 2non.org, a nonprofit media organization dedicated to reporting on China, and is an Editor at Tech in Asia, where he writes about Internet and mobile technology in China and across Asia. He is also the founder of the blog ChinaGeeks and the Director of Living with Dead Hearts, a documentary film about kidnapped children in China and what happens to their families. Living with Dead Hearts comes out online July 29, 2013.
After graduating from Brown University with a degree in East Asian Studies, Custer taught English in Harbin and then taught Chinese in the U.S. before returning to China again to serve as an Editor and ultimately the Web and Multimedia Director for The World of Chinese magazine. He currently lives in Maine.