In May 2013, she was selected by the Barack Obama administration to be the White House deputy chief technology officer (CTO) of the United States.

[1] She currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Albright Stonebridge Group, a global business strategy firm, and is a member of the Mozilla Foundation's Board of Directors.

Her great-grandfather was a Chinese immigrant who entered the United States through Canada and harvested potatoes in Idaho, worked at a laundry in Michigan and became a cook in Livermore, California.

[7] Wong grew up in Del Mar, California, and initially wanted to be a journalist[8] because her aunt was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times.

[8][11] After graduation, Wong worked as an associate and practiced First Amendment law at Steinhart & Falconer LLP[12] in San Francisco; her clients included Bay Area newspapers and radio stations.

[9][13] Wong represented media clients including the Los Angeles Times, The Walt Disney Company, Microsoft, and Amazon.com before joining Google as senior compliance counsel.

[16] Wong has served on the governing committee of the ABA Communications Law Forum since 2001, and on the board of directors of the First Amendment Coalition since 2007.