V ivian Ho is a staff writer for the Guardian. During her career as a journalist, she has reported on everything from murder, police shootings, race, corruption, homeless street kid justice, human trafficking, domestic violence, gangs, sexual assault in the military and natural disasters. Originally from New England, Vivian wrote for the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram and Gazette before moving to California in 2011.

She believes in taking deep dives into stories that have been overlooked or forgotten and finding how something small could actually have a large effect on the bigger picture. She is passionate about providing voices for those who have gone unheard, and exploring complicated topics for their shades of gray rather than a black and white.

Vivian holds a degree in journalism from Boston University, and currently lives in San Francisco with her very patient fiancé who knows to get the hell out of the way when she is chasing a story. She will pet your dog if you'll let her, and will try to steal it if you don't stop her..

A ward-winning journalist Vivian Ho exposes a shattering true-crime story, shedding light on America’s new lost generation.

In 2015, the senseless Bay Area murders of twenty-three-year-old Audrey Carey and sixty-seven-year-old Steve Carter were personal tragedies for the victims’ families. But they also shed light on a more complex issue. The killers were three drifters scrounging for a living among a burgeoning counterculture population. Soon this community of runaways and transients became vulnerable scapegoats of a modern witch hunt. The supposedly progressive residents of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, only two generations removed from the Summer of Love, now feared all of society’s outcasts as threats.

In Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the very fabric of her city and all of urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, she gives voices to these young people—victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction. She also doesn’t ignore the threat they pose to themselves and to others as a dangerous dark side emerges. With alarming urgency, she asks what can be done to save the next generation of America’s vagabond youth.