I am a second-generation Chinese American whose parents immigrated to the U.S. as electrical engineers following the 1965 reversal of anti-Asian immigration policies. Furthermore, as someone who grew up in the Bay Area, studied computer science at Stanford, and worked as a software engineer at Google, my life has been shaped, for better or for worse, by Silicon Valley.

My research asks how Asian America produces and is produced by Silicon Valley. Why and how do Asian Americans participate in a system that racializes and subjugates them? What can we understand about the workings of capitalism, militarism, and other regimes of power by analyzing the ways in which Asian Americans are differentially included in/excluded from the tech industry, and how racial hierarchies are reproduced through the “techno-capital machine?” And finally, how can Asian American stories help us imagine alternative futures that challenge Silicon Valley’s homogenizing and ahistorical narratives?