Xinyi is a data and technology consultant who works on projects strengthening state and organizational capacity building for accountability and record keeping. Her current work includes being the chief technology consultant and developer for Uganda’s national trafficking prosecution case data system platform for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and is building a similar system for South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority. She was the CTO of Liberty Shared, an anti-trafficking organization that focuses on leveraging legal and technological strategies to amplify the anti-trafficking community’s efforts. She was the creator of the Victim Case Management System, the largest civil society trafficking/exploitation case management system used in 26 countries by anti-trafficking nonprofits. She designed and built the Freedom Collaborative online platform when it was a project under Liberty Shared.

Xinyi graduated from Princeton with a BA in politics in 2010. From there, she had the formative tech experience of building a social recommendation startup with friends from her living room. The app competed in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt and was later acquired by Airbnb. After her stint in startups, she joined the PhD program at NYU Stern School of Business to conduct research on psychology and perceptions of fairness. She left the program in 2013 to join Liberty Shared and create VCMS, taking a hiatus to join the PhD program at Princeton’s Department of Sociology, where she conducted research on measurement theory and systemic risk and obtained an MPhil in sociology. Xinyi lives in Los Angeles and has enjoyed the cultural shock of living in disparate places like Washington DC, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, and China.