Hey There —

My name is Jennifer, but you can call me Jenny or Bean 🥜*. I’m a cross-cultural creative from Tokyo 🗼 with roots in Honolulu🏝.

Some fun facts about me: my siblings and I co-founded COLLISION,
Collision Miami image
a music event 🎛️ bringing Japanese and US artists together. My matcha 🍵 consumption ↑ the summer I interned for Matchabar.
Matchabar intern image
I published a paper on eating larvae🐛 with Dr. Paul Rozin.
image of Dr. Paul Rozin
I like to ferment things.
fermented cashew cheese
My middle name, Etsuko —pronounced /ɛtsukow/ — means joy child in Japanese. I like to "shred the gnar" and "chase the pow" ⛷️. And I like running
picture of me running a half marathon
(s/o Northeast Track Club, TrackMafia, and LDN SLCT).

*Yes, I know that’s a peanut, but the bean emoji is not available on all versions, and peanuts are in the legume family anyway

Experience & Education

Skills

Adobe CC, Figma, SQL, Java, Appian SAIL, OCaml, Agile PM + Jira

MSc in Human-Computer Interaction, University College London

Education

2022 - 2023

Federal Technical Consultant, Appian

Work

2020 - 2022

BA in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania

Education

2016 - 2020

Minors in Digital Design & Consumer Psychology

Let’s Connect

A child wearing sunglasses and a red hood is lying on a table with their arms crossed, reading a book. There are cartoon illustrations of a brain, a bird, and a hand holding a pencil around them, creating a surreal scene.