Data & Public Health
She developed her data science foundation as a Junior Data Scientist with the UCSF Epidemiology Team (2020–2021), working on epidemiological modeling, statistical analysis, and COVID-19 public health surveillance — work that earned her a nomination as a COVID-19 Data Hero. In 2021, she was selected as a Kaggle/Google BIPOC Data Fellow, a fellowship that sparked a project she's still building today: a mutual aid resource directory for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists.
Music & Tech
Jianda's roots in music and tech go back to an early role as a content manager at MP3.com, in the platform's original era. She's also a vocalist, with credits on releases for Tycho and Om Records — including as an inaugural Om Discovery artist and an Om Lounge 10 alum. That dual fluency in music and technology led her to found Artisanal Indie, a music discovery and archiving platform built to help independent artists discover, save, and own their own catalogs. Through Artisanal Indie she's built and maintains tools for artists, including the Spotify Discography Exporter, a free, open-source tool that pulls an artist's own released catalog — titles, URLs, and ISRCs — into one spreadsheet.
Writing & Creative Practice
She's the author of the novel My Beautiful Device, and a published poet and fiction writer whose work has taken her from busking on the Santa Monica Pier and through Seattle Parks & Rec, to a fellowship with the San Francisco Public Library's Show Us Your Spines program. Music, painting, and writing all remain active, ongoing parts of her practice, not past chapters.
Education
UC Irvine (Film/Media Studies) · Pomona College (Media Studies) · UMass Dartmouth (Women's & Gender Studies) · CSSSA at CalArts (Creative Writing & Music)
Across Industries
She's worked across the entertainment, nonprofit, education, and tech industries — from MP3.com to UCSF to Amazon — always finding ways to center community, creativity, and the belief that art heals. That throughline shows up in her coaching practice too, which draws on Louise Hay and Julia Cameron's workshop teachings to help people reconnect with their own creative work.