Amy Sun Yan

Amy Sun Yan is currently a strategy and operations Program Manager at Google, focused mainly on acquisitions strategy. Prior to Google, she worked in BizOps and consulting roles at Meta, Groupon, and McKinsey & Company. Amy grew up in Canton, which is known as the “sweet corn capital” of Michigan. She studied two engineering degrees at Johns Hopkins University, and like 75 percent of the students there, she also dropped out of pre-med.

Outside of work, Amy enjoys mentoring and sharing her learnings. Amy has mentored more than two hundred students through one-on-one calls, speaking series, and office hours, and she has been featured on podcasts such as Getting Golden and 10 Minutes of Hiring Wisdom. Amy’s mentees have gone on to work at companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and IBM. These mentoring conversations inspired her to write this book and share her insights so that others could benefit as well.

In 2007, Amy founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth organization called the Little Stars Foundation (thelittlestars.org). She organized young musicians to visit local nursing homes and senior centers to share music and gifts. Amy has served more than a thousand hours on this project, has fundraised $30,000 for the foundation, and continues to serve as board director today.

Amy is also a contributor to Lady Gaga’s New York Times best-selling book, "Channel Kindness." She writes about her experience of automating personalized emails to sixteen hundred universities’ admissions offices asking for branded T-shirts. After collecting over three thousand items, she then donated these to local high schoolers (targeting first-generation college students) to inspire them to further their education.

Amy lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband, Victor, and their dog, Roo, and cat, Tigger. In her spare time she loves to pole dance, travel, and play violin. Connect with Amy on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok: @amysunyan.