I once thought: “ ‘Oh, I'm never going to be able to get into Hollywood. They're never going to want me because of my intersectionalities – like being disabled, being adopted, being Asian.’ When do you see a person like that in media or working in media? I hadn't for the longest time.”

I was adopted from Hong Kong at three and a half, and I spent most of my childhood in Colorado. I didn’t see a lot of characters who reflected my experience as a Chinese American adoptee with cerebral palsy who’s also diabetic and neurodivergent.  My parents are white; my family, for the most part, is white. I was raised in a small town in Colorado where I didn't see any other Asian people. No representation at all, in any sense of the word. I remember homecoming week. We had costume days and I really didn't have anyone, so I dressed in black and said I was Lucy Liu from Charlie's Angels.

I've been in entertainment since I was 24 so it’s been six years. I was living and working for two years out in L.A. – I worked at studios like Warner Brothers and Netflix. I eventually worked my way to become a showrunner’s assistant in Hollywood. Then, later on,  I got the opportunity to consult on the Wish character Dahlia, a royal baker who’s disabled and Asian. 

One of my passions, especially in the entertainment industry, is to create more authentic disability representation, because we don't usually see it in mainstream media. So, I was tapped in as a subcontractor for an organization called RespectAbility. Since Dahlia had a disability and was Asian, it was an intersectionality I never thought I’d see.