Hi, I'm Karissa — a people- and product-oriented, detail-obsessed consultant, strategist, and creative from Los Angeles. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with degrees in English literature and economics. I'm a voracious reader, avid vintage shopper, and very fast walker.*
Get in touch at karissafho@gmail.com.
Reading
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Homeseeking (2025) by Karissa Chen
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We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (2025) by Alissa Wilkinson
Listening
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Summer watchlist:The Departed (Infernal Affairs rip-off, but whatever), The Town (soundtrack is one of my favorites ever), The Fugitive (Ford in all of his glory)
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Visual diffusion models
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Hello, blog, old friend (a few lines on being a Berkeley English major)
*I like the first Jason Bourne movie, Pearl Jam, weddings, Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers, Joan Didion's essays, Munch's woodcuts, Magritte's weird neighborhoods, and Cezanne's "unfinished" landscapes. I drink mostly hot water, write long letters to my friends, do my best work very late at night, and am almost always cold. I strongly dislike coffee, slow drivers, sycophants, and spiders.