Chianna is a senior at Barnard College from Western Massachusetts majoring in computer science and East Asian studies. She has a broad range of interests, including on gender in contemporary China, the Chinese diaspora, and digital surveillance and censorship. She has also interned as a software engineer for the past two summers at Facebook. She is on the executive board of Women in Computer Science and an Athena Scholar at Barnard. In her free time, she likes reading and finding new music for her Spotify playlists.