Chun Chia Tai is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation is about Pacific Islander communities and music scenes, specifically reggae scenes, in the US and their cross-Pacific connection with the homeland and other Pacific Islands. She is volunteering with Melanesian Women Today as part of her dissertation research to learn how culture, music, and education connect Melanesian people in diaspora with their roots. She previously worked for a commercial radio station for two years in Taiwan as a producer. She also worked with Taiwanese Indigenous popular musician Suming Rupi, to organize concerts and the Amis Music Festival for a year. After that, she helped organize music and dance camps and workshops for Indigenous children in Taipei National University of Arts in 2018.