Event
Wednesday Night with ASAM Alumni: Sining Zhou,CAS'12 and Jenny Fan, Wharton'12.
Moderator: Khue Tran
Jenny Fan (W'12) is a multi-disciplinary product designer, researcher, and artist hailing from Texas and currently living in NYC. Her work focuses on designing for complex information systems, ranging from visual programming tools for data analysis to incorporating deliberative democracy into governance mechanisms for online communities. She's currently a Product Designer at Palantir and visiting researcher at UW's Social Futures Lab. She has worked at IDEO, Accenture Interactive, and a number of Series A start-ups in New York City, as well as held fellowships at Harvard Law School's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and TED's fellowship on civics in the information commons. She holds a Master in Design Engineering from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and School of Engineering, and a B.S. in Economics from Wharton (concentrating in Strategy and what was then called Operations and Information Management). The couch at PAACH was her safe space, and she still hangs out with her NSO friends regularly.
While at Penn, Sining (CAS '12) served as co-chair of the ASAM Undergraduate Advisory Board and played an active role in the AAPI community as a facilitator of APALI, PEER mentor, and a board member of various cultural organizations. Penn, PAACH and ASAM helped Sining feel a deep sense of belonging and developed her passion for building and strengthening communities. This translates in her work today where Sining serves as a Product Designer at a mission driven healthtech company in Los Angeles that seeks to provide affordable prescriptions for the underinsured and uninsured. Prior to this, Sining was a consultant both domestically in NYC and abroad in London. She holds a BA from Penn in Health and Societies with a minor in Biology and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University where her research focuses on combating inadequate food systems, climate change and resulting health disparities.
This Spring 2022 semester commemorates 25 years of Asian American Studies at Penn. Join us every Wednesday evening to learn about our history through the personal experiences of our ASAM alums in our new speaker series, Wednesday Nights with ASAM Alumni. Covering a different period each week, we will kick off the chronological series in January 2022 with a close-up look back at Penn and Asian American life in 1996. The series will culminate in May 2022 with a look ahead at 2023. These informal conversations among ASAM friends will be led by the ASAM UAB and will not only be informative but will offer lively memories and shared experiences of undergraduate and graduate life firsthand. A new part of history and new alums each week!
Wednesdays at 7:00 pm EST