Iris Chen is a Chinese-American 🏷️#author, parenting coach, and unschooling mother of two, founder of the Untigering movement and author of Untigering: Peaceful Parenting for the Deconstructing Tiger Parent (2021), which traces her own move out of authoritarian "tiger" parenting toward a respectful, relational practice grounded in autonomy and consent.
Chen lived in China for sixteen years before returning to her native California, where she now writes, speaks, and runs parent-coaching programs under the Untigering brand — including a podcast, online courses, peer-coaching cohorts, and a substantial Instagram and Substack readership at the handle @callmeiris. Her work sits at the intersection of intersectional unschooling, peaceful-parenting practice, and an explicit anti-oppression framing aimed particularly at Asian-diaspora families navigating generational and cultural transformation.