Eva Zheng is the Community Lead at Vapi, building AI voice infrastructure, and Board Director at Hacker Fund.
Eva was an early employee at Notion building customer experience and sales while launching their AAPI ERG program. She co-founded Cal Hacks at UC Berkeley and Empact, an impact production company supporting 100+ film campaigns totaling 1.6M views.
She’s taught empathy workshops in Xinjiang, facilitated end-of-life discussions, and founded Project Humanize US after the 2016 election, a VR docu-series exploring common ground across the political spectrum through the deep south.
$2.2 Trillion in a Generational Vault. What about US?
April 11, 2026
My cousin and I got into it the other night. One of those conversations that starts with "okay but what about China though" and ends with you four tabs deep into Norway's oil fund at 2 AM on a Tuesday. But it stuck with me, because what we were really arguing about wasn't China. It was a question neither of us said out loud: When AI reshapes the global economy over the next decade, which of these systems is actually built to make sure ordinary people benefit?