Connie Young Yu is a Chinese American writer, activist, historian, and lecturer.

She has written and contributed to many articles and books, notably including Profiles in Excellence: Peninsula Chinese Americans, Chinatown San Jose, U.S.A., and Voices from the Railroad: Stories by Descendents of Chinese Railroad Workers. Through her work, she uncovers forgotten or hidden facets of Chinese and Asian American history.

Yu played a central role in getting the Angel Island Immigration Station designated a National Historic Landmark, therefore preserving the detention barracks that had Chinese poems carved on the walls