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​​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.


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9 Feb 2026

“I’ve never actually visited the pā before,” she said out loud. “Is this where they gather lāʻī to make the pūʻolo?” she asked. “Yes,” Benny responded, glancing to see where Nanea was pointing. “Here and in other places as well. Many of these ti have been growing for decades now.” She paused for a moment. “I think about all the work you guys do, you know, up in those offices, and I think that all of that work actually starts from right here, in the ground, all covered in the earth and the pōhaku and the ti. Most people don’t even know it, but it all starts right here.
sometime in the night, we heard rocking and knocking and rapping and tapping, a million trillion tiny feet
The triangles bred and twisted, replicating themselves.
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