Vanessa Au

By day, I'm a Conference Content Manager at Tableau Software. By night, I serve as adjunct faculty at the University of Washington (Master of Communication in Digital Media Program) and co-founder/co-director of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival.

I have a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Washington and my dissertation was titled Contemporary Popular Culture and the Politics of Asian American Representation, Resistance, and Cultural Production. I'm also the author of My Day of Fame on Digg.com: Race, Representation and Resistance in Web 2.0, a chapter in the edited volume titled Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age (edited by Ted Gournelos & David J. Gunkel).

Previously, I served as a Sr. Analyst and Sr. Social Strategist at Spring Creek, a social media agency in Seattle, WA that operated as a subsidiary of Interpublic Group (IPG) Mediabrands.