Prior to tech, I was a journalist for 10+ years. I reported for The Oregonian, The Desert Sun, and The Wall Street Journal in China. I covered financial markets for real-time newswires from Hong Kong, as well as China’s property market frenzies, rising debt load, and urban development plans from Beijing.

In 2019, I traveled the world for six months, writing travel essays about the places I visited, including more than a dozen countries like Indonesia, Senegal, and Croatia, before returning home to California. Later that year, I joined 23andMe to develop content strategies for genetic health reports.

At Google, I helped train large language models to find and explain noteworthy insights and trends in your personal health and wellness data at Fitbit using friendly, empathetic, and accurate language.

In my spare time, I work on my debut fictional novel about the Chinese railroad workers who built America’s transcontinental railroad.

Photos by Rafaella Pedroso