Coco is a designer and entrepreneur with a passion for the future of cities, currently leading operations and design at Itana (www.itana.africa), Africa’s first Digital Zone. A graduate from University of California, Los Angeles, she has worked in interdisciplinary fields spanning entertainment and technology, collaborating with some of the largest consumer brands in business partnerships. In her career, she had crafted web experiences at Google, built the brand and product of a home-sharing platform for the web3 community, and engaged in product marketing for an ecosystem of products combining hardware, software, and media content. After extensive travels – what she refers to as a “self-taught Masters in Modern Humanity”, she founded Socialhaus, an offline space with the goal of transforming the social landscape in the modern era by curating urban living rooms for cities. In the process, she ran over 100 analog and digital events and created thousands of meaningful connections.

Coco grew up straddling between two cultures: China and the United States. Her background and experience of adapting to both cultures at an early age enabled her to be highly empathetic and creative. Passionate about how the built world affects the way we connect, she is ready to build the next model city and reimagine the environment we live in.