Hey, I'm Chia. I'm a CS & Art student at Yale by way of Manila. I design and code radical initiatives & products for good.
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I'm a technologist & designer. At Developh, I accelerate and invest in youth-led innovation across Southeast Asia. On campus, I do creative research at the CCAM, advise student startups, and design as UX Society's President. Recently, I spoke at GHC Conf in Australia. Online, I create games, experiences, and write stories. Let's talk?
If you enjoy my writing, experiments, or creations, I have a Tinyletter I sent out every few months!
When you watch the world, it watches you back. Log online into a stream of exposed security cameras and CCTV feeds...
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 and design leaders with empathy & impact.
As the only sophomore Studio Fellow, I spearhead projects across creative code, open-source, and experimental web tech while running workshops & programming.
Poetry and gods. ~5k words
Topsters alternative chart generator.
they might be broken, they might be giants...
girls.ph: a newsletter curating media recs to your inbox 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. 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.