Da Zhang

Da Zhang is a Stanford GSB Sloan Fellow with over a decade of experience growing brands, products, and communities across consumer goods, hardware, and tech. She launched Google's first startup accelerator in China, helped build Roblox's developer community in the region, and led multiple product launches at Vivo and Unilever. Through her own experience, Da came to see how much the mind can be reframed and rewired, and how much that can change the way a person lives and grows. That conviction is what drew her to this field. At Emergence, Da leads research on the landscape of academic and translational innovation in behavioral science, looking for the ideas and people whose work could shape the next generation of mental health solutions. A curious learner at heart, she welcomes conversations with people working at the frontier of this field.