Bad driver. Math wizard. Model minority. In this hilarious and
insightful talk, eighteen-year-old Canwen Xu shares her Asian-American
story of breaking stereotypes, reaffirming stereotypes, and driving
competently on her way to buy rice.
Canwen Xu's slogan for life is “Canwen can win.” Born in Nanjing, China,
she moved to the United States when she was two years old, and since
then has lived in some of the whitest states in the country, including
North Dakota, South Dakota and Idaho. A senior at Timberline High
School, Canwen is passionate about politics, and is the national
membership director and Idaho state director for the Young Democrats
High School Caucus. Also a programmer, she started an all-girls computer
science workshop called Code For Fun and received National Runner-Up in
the 2014 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing competition.
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