Kia ora!

I’m Isabel 玥 Li (they, she), a non-binary Chinese-Kiwi artist, writer, researcher, and pattern-matcher. I studied Computer Science, Creative Writing, Design, and New Media at UC Berkeley. I conduct human-computer interaction research at the Berkeley Institute of Design, investigating creativity support tools for artists and youths’ technological futures. At Netflix, I build tools for improving translation and accessibility.

I often cross the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco, California, and Auckland, New Zealand. You can find me wide-eyed at the gachapon in Japantown, documenting each dog at Alamo Square with a Kuretake, or hovering behind the fiction at Unity Books. You can find some of my work in Kernel, Re-Draft, and scattered ‘round the net.

Some things that make my heart beat faster include queer interpretations of pre-19th century literature, cartoons with awful bad-boy characters, peculiar ice cream flavours, clothing with ribbons and pearled buttons, sitting by the sea, and coming across cognates organically.

Please reach out if you would like to create a more joyful world with me / collaborate together / add me on Neopets.

下次见！