Physician Associate student, content creator, and former model with a globally rooted, science-forward approach to wellness. She became interested in working in medicine after the death of her mother. She has over 270,000 followers on her iamkouka Instagram account where she shares life updates from her family and career. Raised between Hong Kong and Tokyo, she began modeling at 11 and spent her teens traveling the world for fashion weeks in Milan and Paris. After years in the fashion industry, she pursued a degree in nutrition at NYU and built a career as a clinical nutritionist in New York.