Isadora Chen was born in Taipei and emigrated to San Francisco at twelve, where her family’s repeated rejections by lending, hiring, and insurance algorithms left an indelible mark. She earned a statistics degree at UC Berkeley, spent ten years in corporate AI ethics, and eventually founded an independent audit firm, testifying twice before Congress before turning her investigative work into literature. Her fiction and nonfiction orbit the same wound: the lived trauma of algorithmic discrimination. She dissects hiring filters, redlining code, and facial‑recognition failures, using the thriller form to make abstract bias palpable while insisting that justice requires concrete exposure. Through precise, surgeon‑like prose, she argues that hidden prejudice is a moral emergency, not a technical footnote. Readers first notice her sentences’ measured cadence and clinical exactness; every paragraph feels like a documented operation. Her voice carries the weight of responsibility, delivering uncomfortable truths without overt anger, allowing the facts themselves to devastate. The result is a blend of documentation and narrative that reads like a courtroom testimony narrated by a seasoned storyteller.
Tall, lean, with shoulder‑length black hair streaked by premature gray, dark eyes that seem to scan everything, and a habit of wearing crisp button‑downs and practical shoes.