Newsletters

MultiMexico– a newsletter on multicultural stories of Mexico.

(Archived) Design x Culture– a newsletter on design and culture.

Journalism

“Beyond Boba: Taiwanese Restaurants Make Waves In Mexico City” – The News Lens, December 2024

“Now I Walk My Own”: Kao Chia-yu’s Path, Part 2– The News Lens, May 2022

“Princess in the Attic”: Kao Chia-yu’s Path – The News Lens, April 2022

Flip Service: How running flip-flops became cult favorites in Taiwan – Runner’s World UK, January 2022

Michelle Wu Becomes Boston’s First Asian American Mayor in Historic Election – The News Lens, November 2021

A Bubble Tea–Making Robot Is a Portent of Things to Come – Slate, August 2021

Lost Dreams of FamilyMart – The News Lens, June 2021

Taiwan Is Not a COVID-19 Paradise– Business Insider, May 2021

Coming Home to a Place I’ve Never Lived - The News Lens, May 2021

How a Student Movement Gave Birth to Postcards of Taiwan’s Past – The News Lens, April 2021

Running at Bihu– The News Lens, March 2021

Taiwan’s not just bubble tea, say these tea houses coming up with new drinks and innovating on the country’s drinking culture - South China Morning Post, March 2021

For “Subtle Taiwanese Traits,” Seeing Taiwan Anew Starts Within the Community – The News Lens, March 2021

Runners Gear up for the Taipei Marathon Amid Covid-19– The News Lens, December 2020

What We Can Learn From Taiwan’s Quarantine Experience – The News Lens, November 2020

How Taiwanese International Students Are Making This Semester Normal – The News Lens, November 2020

Research

2024 report: Key insights on the international graduate student admissions experience– Interstride, 2024

The international graduation student experience – Interstride, 2023

Can a better admissions experience increase international student enrollment? – Interstride, 2022

15 Years of Entrepreneurship at Tufts – Tufts Entrepreneurship Center, 2019

Being humans at work: through the discourse of “culture” among tech and culture workers in the San Francisco Bay Area – Honors Thesis in Anthropology, Tufts University, 2019

Essays

Accessible Public Designs in Taiwan - November 2025

Denver: Stranger Vignettes – June 2023

How I set up my social media diet via RSS – The Bootcamp, January 2021

Designing a Wallet in 2 Hours – The Startup, July 2019

Home for the Summer– July 2020

Coming Home: Cinthy– January 2019

A Woman in the Kitchen – ANTH: End of Work in the United States, December 2018

Being International in America – International Baccalaureate Organization, September 2018