Our Advisory Board

Yiching Vivian Chen

Yiching Vivian Chen is a human rights practitioner, civic technologist, and ecosystem builder working at the intersection of reimagination, decentralized technology, and movement infrastructure.

Since 2024, Vivian has been leading Reimagination Space, a long-term initiative exploring how communities affected by conflict, displacement, and authoritarianism can collectively reimagine futures beyond crisis response. The initiative has hosted seven immersive residencies (ranging from 2 to 7 days) alongside multiple dialogue and learning spaces, bringing together activists, artists, technologists, and community organizers to experiment with new narratives, relationships, and forms of collective care and governance.

Since 2022, Vivian has been deeply engaged in the Web3 and crypto ecosystem through initiatives such as Funding the Commons and Pagoda, exploring how decentralized technologies can enable new funding mechanisms for public goods, human rights work, and community-led movements. Her work focuses on translating crypto and decentralized infrastructure into values-aligned tools that support trust, sustainability, and long-term movement resilience—particularly for communities operating under political and economic constraints.

Vivian is also a contributor to the Taiwan civic tech movement. In 2022, she founded a decentralized technology project, da0 (under g0v), that collaborated with Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, working at the interface of government, civil society, and open-source communities to explore participatory, transparent, and citizen-centered digital governance.

Her human rights work spans nearly a decade. Since 2015, Vivian has engaged in regional and international advocacy across Asia-Pacific and global forums. She served as a UN Youth Representative for Taiwan at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and was the Chinese Taipei Head Delegate to the APEC Women and the Economy Forum from 2018 to 2020, where she worked on gender equality, economic inclusion, and cross-border policy dialogue.

Across all her work, Vivian is committed to moving beyond extractive models of aid, technology, and advocacy—toward reimagination as practice, and toward systems that center dignity, agency, and collective futures.