Julianne Chang Huang

Julianne is 18, from Beaverton, Oregon, and just started as an Informatics direct-admit at the University of Washington. Her interest in bridging difference started at seven, tagging along on her Taiwanese grandparents' weekly neighborhood outings and slowly earning her way into their conversations and their friend group. That same instinct scaled up fast: she co-founded STOP under the Center for Gender Equitable AI after her best friend's mom was repeatedly targeted by explicit deepfakes, authoring model policy frameworks and running a workshop and media campaign that reached 6.1 million people.

She's also advised state officials on the ground, helping shape Oregon's SB619 consumer privacy law (covering more than 4.2 million residents) and running feedback sessions across 16 school districts on the state's new cellphone ban, affecting over 580,000 students. Her guiding question for the fellowship is whether AI-driven matching and community tools can be designed to point people toward each other, not just toward more AI.