Sen Zhan

Sen is the host and producer of the podcast Beyond Asian: Stories of the Third Culture, where she helps her guests retrace the events of the past to empower the present, spanning themes of transcultural identity, intergenerational trauma, and the diverse understandings of belonging and home. 

A lifelong storyteller, Sen believes that when we share our histories, we retrieve the lost threads that lead us back to ourselves. Through retracing our memories, we draw the throughlines of meaning that lead us from the past to the present and draw us forward to the future. 

Intertwined with the narrative explorations of her podcast, Sen brings in creative writing and poetry to share inspiration in the smallest of moments - a glance, a certain posture of the body, a micro-scene on a street corner. 

Sen was born in China, raised in Canada, and currently lives in an intentional community in Berlin. She loves thinking and experimenting with the future of human connection.