Throughout high school, Jinyang focused on two areas of interest: politics and computing. Since her freshman year, she has been working on expanding access to period products in WA, most notably helping to pass two bills within the WA legislature—SB 5147, which ended the state’s tax on menstrual products, and SB 6073, which established a new requirement for WA schools to provide period products for free in their restrooms. She is also a research intern at the Prosocial Computing Laboratory, building a chatbot that helps hospitals identify their patients’ social needs, such as food insecurity. 
 
In college, she hopes to combine these two interests and study how technology is influencing partisanship and democracy. She will be a freshman studying computer science at the University of Washington Seattle this fall. 

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