Hometown: Hong Kong
Major: Performing and Media Arts
Minor: STS
I'm a Performing and Media Arts major with a deep curiosity about the relationship between technology and live performance: how the two have always pushed each other forward, and what that means for the artists and audiences of today.
I grew up training in musical theater, and I now spend a lot of my time working on technical theater productions and film crews. That hands-on experience has shaped the way I think: I'm not just interested in what technology does in a performance space, but why it works the way it does, how it got there, and who gets to use it. I'm especially drawn to immersive and site-specific theater — the kind of work that transforms a space and pulls an audience into the story rather than seating them in front of it. In an age where so much of our connection to each other happens through a screen, I find something radical about a form of art that insists on presence.
A lot of my thinking also centers on access: both to the technologies that power the arts, and to artistic and cultural experiences themselves. I want to understand how we build industries and institutions that are genuinely open, and how education shapes who feels like they belong in those spaces.
I'm equally fascinated by how technology gets represented in media, and how those portrayals ripple outward into the way society understands and relates to innovation. And as AI reshapes the creative landscape, I'm less interested in debating whether to engage with it than in figuring out how to do so with intention: growing with the tools rather than being left behind by them.
Outside of academics, I love escape rooms, solving crosswords, and watching chocolate chip cookies bake through the oven door.
