I am a policy researcher focused on the US-China relationship, trained as a historian of China and Hong Kong. At Hoover, I manage the program on the US, China, and the World, and serve as key personnel for the National Science Foundation’s SECURE program, a $67 million effort authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 to enhance the security and integrity of the US research enterprise. In addition to my work at Hoover, I'm a Foreign Policy for America NextGen Initiative fellow in the 2024 cohort, as well as a 2024 Out in National Security/New America New Voice. In my policy research life, I like to think in three buckets: culture (gender and feminism; historical memory; creative industries); innovation (critical and emerging technology; industrial policy; international scientific collaboration); and ethics (doing analytically grounded, useful work on China without fueling xenophobia and inflaming nationalist tensions).My academic work has touched on economic history (the growth and development of China trading firms in the transition away from opium to financial services); military history (the evacuation of British women and children from Hong Kong during WW2); and histories of sexuality and intimacy (Eurasian family-making). I have particular interests in archival theory and theories of race, racialization, and racecraft.I was lucky enough to grow up between New York, Beijing, and Hong Kong, but I now call the Bay Area home.