​​Christine Phan is a storyteller and community researcher for equitable and anti-carceral technology by and for communities of color. She’s a second-generation Vietnamese American from Tacoma, Washington — and mostly writes about the intersections of those experiences.

Phan is currently a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania studying the development of community-owned digital tools. In her other roles, she steered narrative change work to dismantle the power structures reinforcing disinformation in Asian American communities, led the development of case studies in ethics in tech, and managed a city-wide program to close the digital divide in Oakland, California.