ZOKY ZHOU

ZOKYZHOU

Founder · Maker · Policy Entrepreneur

Portrait of Zoky Zhou in a dark pinstriped blazer
Builder / operator / maker

Policy mind. Builder hands. Artist eyes. Founding Terrain. Studying power. Making things that last.

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About

I came from policy, ended up building AI infrastructure, and never stopped making things by hand.

  • Honors economist
  • HKS Student Gov · Elected VP
  • Turner Impact champion
  • PADI certified
  • Acoustic guitarist
  • Printmaker
  • Outdoor
  • Designer

“Whatever Zoky commits to, she finishes at the top.”

Work and Education
FOUNDER

TERRAIN

Agentic AI infrastructure for physical environments. 50+ beta signups. Pilot conversations with Whoop.

POLICY + FINANCE

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL

MPP '26. Elected VP Climate Action at Student Government. Project Finance, AI Engineering, VC & Entrepreneurship. 1st place globally, Turner Impact Portfolio Challenge.

VENTURE, HR

BOMBELLII VENTURES

VC Analyst. Climate tech deal sourcing, investment memos, due diligence frameworks, Hiring and HR

ORIGIN STORY

COLBY COLLEGE

Where a kid from China became a policy entrepreneur in rural Maine. Bigelow Lab: sustainable seafood research. Climate Bechdel Test: Hollywood climate literacy study with Prof. Schneider-Mayerson & Good Energy. Honors thesis: carbon pricing.

Art

MADE BY HAND

My art is shaped by nature and environmental grief: dolphin slaughter after The Cove, trash-pile installations, printmaking, and fashion design. As founder of Colby's fashion club, I personally organized the annual flower giveaways — where people exchanged a handwritten note about a lovely memory for a free flower — and the year-end thrifts that create new value from clothes people were ready to leave behind.

Environment / Memory / Making
Leaf studies — Multi-block relief on washiPentagon field — Layered stencil printCat silhouettes — Monoprint series, orange + yellowWhale on crimson — Reduction linocut with gold inkAccordion books, vitrine — Print + fold installationDrying rack — Studio process, mixed editions
Printmaking
Leaf studies
Multi-block relief on washi
01 / 09
INUIT — bound cover — Hand-bound artist bookWhale on crimson — Reduction linocut, gold inkCoral overlay — Layered relief on washiPinned print study — Mixed-layer impressionAccordion fold I — Whale book, unfurledAccordion fold II — Interior spread, repetition
The Cove · Marine series
INUIT — bound cover
Hand-bound artist book
01 / 07
Wire net + red bubble — Painted wire, plastic, found materialsCoral mass — Bubble wrap, ink, woven wireBlue clusters through the mesh — Pigment on plastic, knotted wire gridKnot study — Detail — color thread junctionRed field, woven edge — Painted bubble wrap, structural wireThin lines, blue ground — Wire drawing on painted surface
Trash pile installation
Wire net + red bubble
Painted wire, plastic, found materials
01 / 08
Flower hat, red shell — Handmade headpiece, winter fieldProcess grid — Halter draft, polka-dot bonnet, hand stitching, patternStudio frame — Garment in progressSilhouette exploration — Process and form
Fashion design
Flower hat, red shell
Handmade headpiece, winter field
01 / 04
Racks in the hall — Year-end thrift I organized — Colby Pulver atriumTrading at the table — Secondhand exchange, community in motionStamped and tied — Hand-wrapped sweater, kraft tag, jute twine
Year-end thrift · organized by Zoky
Racks in the hall
Year-end thrift I organized — Colby Pulver atrium
01 / 03
Roses, ready to give — Setup at Pulver — flowers waiting for the tradeNotes for flowers — Sticky-note wall: trade a love memory, take a roseBehind the table — The giveaway in full swing — roses, ribbon, hearts
Flower giveaway · organized by Zoky
Roses, ready to give
Setup at Pulver — flowers waiting for the trade
01 / 03