I grew up in Shanghai and moved to the United States at 18 for college. Exposure to different cultures from a young age shaped how I see the world, and sparked a lasting curiosity about how ideas, technology, and capital move across borders.

At UC Berkeley, I studied Economics and Global Studies, and later earned a master's in Enterprise Risk Management at Columbia, exploring the geopolitics, financial systems, and technology that shape how the world actually works.

Outside the classroom, I founded an e-commerce startup at 21, worked at ByteDance, interned at a venture capital firm, and started creating content online. Each experience showed me a different piece of the same global story: how founders turn ideas into products, how tech companies scale across markets, how investors spot and back opportunity, and how the internet lets ideas reach millions of people.

My path was never linear. I followed my curiosity across technology, finance, entrepreneurship, media, and global culture, and it eventually led me to New York, where I now work in marketing at MoonPay, a global fintech company, sitting at the intersection of fintech, AI-native finance, and the creator economy.

Today, my focus is AI-native finance. I believe the next generation of financial infrastructure will be built not just for people, but for autonomous software systems too. But technology is a means, not the goal. My broader mission is to help people everywhere create opportunities for themselves, even when the path forward isn't obvious yet.