- Operates day-to-day operations of all BART social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Tiktok (Cumulative followers: ~480,000) providing public transit advocacy, District announcements, trip planning and customer service- Executes email communications strategies and technical support for more than 500,000 BART email subscribers after leading internal transition efforts to Salesforce Marketing Cloud- Develops and strategizes positive, educational… Show more - Operates day-to-day operations of all BART social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Tiktok (Cumulative followers: ~480,000) providing public transit advocacy, District announcements, trip planning and customer service- Executes email communications strategies and technical support for more than 500,000 BART email subscribers after leading internal transition efforts to Salesforce Marketing Cloud- Develops and strategizes positive, educational messages about BART through creative, humorous messages or videos on social media with aim of virality and education. More than 20 BART social media posts have been subject of news stories locally and nationally- Contributed to BART’s procurement of $300 million in first tranche of capital funds from the Federal Transit Administration through coordination of a “Twitter Town Hall” and public pressure of the funds- Oversees all web content on bart.gov as the primary content creator and as collaborator with 15 different BART departments to ensure accuracy, transparency and consistency in content- Planned and navigated full migration of BART’s content management system in 2023, leading content quality control and training the new system for 50 employees who actively use the system- Led internal user quality control groups on six different projects to launch or roll out new features for the BART website, mobile apps, and Trip Planner tool- Coordinated communication campaigns with transit agencies in the Bay Area and across the United States to raise awareness of public transit’s fiscal crisis and calling for political action since 2020 Show less

I cover Apple, personal technology, startups and venture capital for The Mercury News and the East Bay Times. In my experience, I have interviewed executives at Apple, Niantic, Lockheed Martin and MoviePass; politicians at the municipal, state and federal levels; professors, industry analysts and venture capitalists who examine the landscape of Silicon Valley carefully. I expanded my beat to cover emerging or underserved technologies like cryptocurrency, cybersecurity and autonomous driving.

● Featured on Popular Science, VICE Motherboard, Berkeleyside, KQED, Haas School of Business, KoreAm Magazine, and New America Media● Accepted as one of eight journalists in Asian-American Writing Workshop’s inaugural Dat Winning Sports Journalism Fellowship● Works as personal assistant to UC Berkeley J-School Professor Emeritus Andrew Stern

● Reported 1-3 articles every daily for Newsweek's website on technology, from the biggest tech stories involving Silicon Valley giants like Facebook, Google and Apple to more niche stories from ● Wrote three magazine pieces on the FAA’s attempt at regulating hobby drones and its legality; ransomware's damages on rural US schools, churches and hospitals; and Burning Man's rising costs since the 1990s. ● Spoke frequently about tech issues on KDOW's Rob Black & Your Money podcast show

■ Reported 2-3 tech articles a week department■ Compiled “Movers & Shakers” column, bestselling books list, and events calendar every week■ Researched and compiled local races in Bay Area for 2014 elections.■ Assisted customer service on behalf of the editorial department■ Taught other editorial assistants in using Chronicle’s content management system

■ Managed, curated, and copy edited content on the LA Times homepage■ Researched and wrote data visualization projects and narrative-based multimedia galleries■ Supervised several LA Times Facebook and Twitter accounts during weekendds■ Sent breaking news alerts to LA Times email subscribers

●Compiled photo galleries and write blog posts●Assisted SFGate.com's web team with maintaining the website

●Supervised all online operations at dailycal.org. (Monthly pageviews ~ 500,000)●Managed the online department, composed of 8 web developers and 3 web designers, through all website fixtures and special online projects●Oversaw creation of the CalSO Special Issue (dailycal.org/calso) landing page and Summer Orientation Issue●Managed as acting social media manager over summer. Facebook overreach peaked at 32,000 people/week.●Created weekly digital reports via Google Analytics and… Show more ●Supervised all online operations at dailycal.org. (Monthly pageviews ~ 500,000)●Managed the online department, composed of 8 web developers and 3 web designers, through all website fixtures and special online projects●Oversaw creation of the CalSO Special Issue (dailycal.org/calso) landing page and Summer Orientation Issue●Managed as acting social media manager over summer. Facebook overreach peaked at 32,000 people/week.●Created weekly digital reports via Google Analytics and social media reports. Show less

●Managed and edited 19 staff writers for UC Berkeley’s independent student newspaper. (Daily circ. ~10,000) ●Oversaw creation of six basketball special issues, including the March Madness issue, and related photos and multimedia projects●Introduced Storify to cover breaking sports news like the firing of football coach Jeff Tedford and National Signing Day●Covered the NCAA women's basketball Final Four at New Orleans in April 2013.

● Sorted and read through nearly 1000 pages’ worth of declassified government documents of the United States’ military and economic relations with East and South Asia during the Cold War● Compiled 25-30 summary reports for Dr. Scott Bruce’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) project● Catalogued and organized an archive of 100’s of unread declassified documents

● Collected and organized biomass data for Dr. Ma’s biometeorological project● Organized and archived tens of thousands of previous data in spreadsheets● Drafted Dr. Ma’s field report diaries online for future preservation● Proofread and critiqued Dr. Ma and her colleagues’ drafted reports