Hey, I'm Chia. I'm a nineteen-year-old CS & Art student at Yale, from Manila. I create initiatives and products that build the world: the browser is my canvas.
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At Developh, I accelerate & invest in youth-led innovation for good across Southeast Asia. On-campus, I do creative research at the CCAM, support student-led startups, & create at User Experience Society—Yale's design organization & consultancy. Recently, I spoke at the first Asia-Pacific Grace Hopper Celebration on computational justice. My work across dozens of student-ventures & product startups informs how I ideate, collaborate, and drive product forward. Online, I create games, experiences, and write stories.
is a student, creator, and all-aspiring designer, PM, and engineer. Mostly wanting to be some sort of creative technologist. Learn more
I write intimate prose (or raw thought) about design, games, & life. Subscribe to my Tinyletter for doses of them or read my blog (since 2013). I create games on itch.io that might interest you, too.
An essay about the worsening chaos of traffic in Manila, Angkas, and the Philippine government's relation with products and startups. (13 min read)
I founded Developh in 2016, now we're nurturing student founders in Southeast Asia. We're advising student-centric incubation & tech education, running an accelerator, and an online community. Say hi—chia@developh.org.
Nurturing engineering & design leaders with empathy & impact. Talk to me about the only design org at Yale.
As the only sophomore Studio Fellow, I spearhead projects across creative code, open-source, and experimental web tech while running workshops & programming.
they might be broken, they might be giants..
INTERN.PH: companies & compensations in the philippines
MUSICOH!: a topsters alternative chart generator.
GAY GIRL PRAYS FOR A GUN: an interactive fiction.
ROUND: an introspective journey around the world
god idle incremental (EXPERIMENTAL).
godsent: of presidents playing god.
a by-students, for-students accelerator.
a newsletter from the yale women's center.
a digital publication for philippine tech.
an up-and-coming newsletter reclaiming the email as an intimate space (that i'd love you to write for).
a video series about myself and the failure to grow up.
a web app collating progressive candidates for the philippine midterms, reaching over millions of filipinos.
a digital experience about time and self.
an if piece about dying.
reclamation (poem) published in rambutan literary
a song for our fathers (poem) shared by siklab poetry
a microsoft imagine cup-winning project about digital humanitarianism.
a poem a day from national poetry month in 2018.
a tale of sadness and sorrow...
texting your ded gf
a collection of work from age 16 and before.
a place behind the sea.