I'm Vivian and I'm a
I'm a junior at Stanford majoring in computer science & entrepreneurial management (a major that I created!) and minoring in psychology. I'm all about building high-impact products and uplifting under-represented voices in STEM.
Palo Alto, California
Stanford University
Currently, I'm...
📲 Researching at the Stanford Screenomics Lab how the intersection of media and technology reveals the economic disparity between low- and high-income individuals
Building a community of young changemakers at my nonprofit organization, Linens N Love, and mentoring them through their personal volunteering initiatives
Engineering my new personal website, after finally parting with my high school version
Recently, I...
👩🏻🏫 Taught CS (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Swift) to nearly 200 young girls and non-binary folks at Girls Who Code and Kode With Klossy through their summer program
💻 Interned at Bank of America through their Student Leaders Intern Program and authored "Where STEM Meets Storytelling", a hands-on STEM curriculum for middle and high schoolers
Participated in Microsoft's Tech Resilience Program to learn more about how to be a resilient woman in technology
🎙 Presented a TEDx Talk called "Redefining the Middle Child Stereotype: Life From the Middle"
👩🏻💻 Competed at a hackathon at MIT and won first place with my team
Visited Disneyland (AKA my second home)! I've memorized the map of Disneyland and (almost) every single line of Frozen
WE Day California 2019!
Sharing my story of community building and global cultural experiences to 16,000+ youth leaders!
April 25, 2019
The Forum in Inglewood, California
I'm beyond thankful that I had this opportunity to share the stage with Neil Patrick Harris, Mahershala Ali, Chance the Rapper, Selena Gomez, Joe Jonas, Bill Nye, Pentatonix, Natalie Portman, Meghan Trainor, and Olivia Holt 
A Project with Passion: Linens N Love
In 2014, I co-founded Linens N Love with my sister, May, after witnessing the common hotel industry practice of discarding linens with slight imperfections into landfills. At Linens N Love, we emphasize service-based learning as we have student volunteers reach out to hotels to request linens donations. From there, student leaders donate these linens to local shelters supporting the homeless, animals, women, teens, veterans, and more. While teaching our student leaders the importance of social entrepreneurship and sustainability, we also organize annual leadership summits for our team.
As an award-winning, student-led 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, Linens N Love has connected hundreds of youths around the world. To date, we have donated over 30,000 linens and I'm looking forward to reaching our 100,000 linen donation milestone. In the long run, I aspire to use the power of technology and create a mobile or web app for Linens N Love.
Breaking down the numbers:
- 50,000 linens donated since 2014
- 15,000+ views on the team's Medium publication
- 500 volunteers from over 15 different countries
- United States, Canada, Mexico, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jordan, UK, Kenya, Singapore, Sri Lanka, India, Ireland, Pakistan, and Peru
- 60+ youth volunteer events, summits, fundraisers, and donation drives
- 48 supporters from hotels, shelters, and other companies
- WE Foundation, DHL, Disney, General Motors, Allstate Foundation, City National Bank, SoCal Gas, The Awesome Foundation, and Marriott
- 30 Linens N Love Chapters
- 8 years of history since our start in 2014