Monika Chao
Philosophy Core Instructor
B.A., University of North Carolina, Asheville
M.A., San Francisco State University
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
Ms. Chao has a B.A. from UNC Asheville, an M.A. from SFSU, and is ABD on her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation is on privacy and personal data, specifically whether it is ethically dubious to use public personal data to predict private information about people. She has also published work at the intersection of philosophy of language and feminist philosophy.
She is an enthusiastic dog mom and spends her free time running in the Marin Headlands, occasionally hosting a local radio show, and attempting to paint with watercolors.