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Tina Mai
Design Engineer, Writer, Building Startups



Past work

Built AI accessibility app to help visually-impaired youth (VAST), awarded by U.S. Congress

Won World Series of Innovation for making fintech software for the unbanked

Won international Applied Arts Award for app product design

Writing published in the New York Times & UNICEF

Spoke @ South by Southwest (SXSW) about building a nuclear fusion reactor in a garage

Served as inaugural OC Youth Poet Laureate
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