Levi Sumagaysay, an immigrant who was raised in Vallejo, is a journalist. She has worked at the Vallejo Times-Herald, Alameda News Group and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She is now the editor of SiliconBeat, the award-winning technology news blog of the Mercury News, where she has worked in various writing and editing roles for the past two decades. She loves hiking, food, wine, books, husband Vernon Farley and daughter Eva, though not necessarily in that order.