Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Toa Lohe
Stanford ’16 · Shanghai · Narrative & Geopolitics
Toa Lohe is a Stanford-educated writer, university guidance counselor, and geopolitical analyst based in Shanghai. He is the Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Hedge Against AI.
At Stanford, Toa pursued independent research projects and spent time in Paris and Beijing.
He has spent the better part of a decade guiding students across Asia and North America through the university admissions process—first as the founder of his own counseling practice spanning the U.S., Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan, and now as a university guidance counsellor at an international school.
His editorial eye is narrative-first. He believes the strongest applications, arguments, and essays start with a real scene and a point of view—not a thesis statement. That same instinct shapes this newsletter.
What Toa Brings to the Newsletter
Narrative Discipline
Years of coaching students to find and tell their real story. If a piece reads like it could have been written by anyone, it gets sent back.
Cross-Border Perspective
Based in Shanghai, educated in California, with deep roots in Hawaii, Paris, Beijing, and across Asia. The newsletter is global because the editor is.
Geopolitical Fluency
Through his Geopolitics+ project, Toa tracks the resurgence of global mercantilism, regulation, and how power actually moves—not how tech Twitter imagines it does.
“Perseverance, the secret of all my triumphs.”
— Toa Lohe
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