Yale-China Board of Trustees
Former Director, Managing Executive Officer and General Counsel—Panasonic Corporation (Osaka), Stonington, Connecticut
Former Yale-China Fellow
Larry was among the first group of teaching fellows dispatched to the People’s Republic of China, on Yale-China’s re-establishment of English teaching programs there, in 1980 at Wuhan University. He graduated that year from Yale with a B.A. in Chinese studies and economics. On returning to the U.S. in 1982, he obtained a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and then spent 35 years as a corporate lawyer, general counsel, corporate director and advocate for the international business community, based in Beijing, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Osaka. He is fluent in Mandarin and Japanese.
Larry has been engaged in cross-border business investment and rule of law issues in China and Japan throughout his career, first at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he headed the Beijing office in the late 1980’s—and then 22 years at General Electric Company, as General Counsel in its GE Medical Systems Asia, GE Capital Japan, and GE Corporate Japan business divisions. While in Tokyo, he served several years as Vice President, and then in 2013 as President, of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
Following his retirement from GE at the end of 2013, Larry took on global executive officer responsibilities with two Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed companies—first with LIXIL Corporation, where he was appointed its Chief Legal Officer in 2014, and then with Panasonic Corporation, where he was named its General Counsel, and first non-Japanese member of the Board of Directors, in 2018. In both roles, he was deeply involved in strategizing the companies’ extensive investments and operations in China.
Larry retired from Panasonic in 2022, and relocated to Stonington, his hometown in Connecticut, with his husband Paul Ma (马博), whom he met while based in Beijing, and their two young children. He looks forward to re-engaging from there with the Yale and Yale-China communities.
Professor at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University
Joan Channick is Professor in the Practice and Chair of the Theater Management program at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama, where she served as Associate Dean from 2009 to 2017. She worked previously as Managing Director of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre and as Managing Director of Theatre Communications Group, a national service organization for the not-for-profit professional theater field, in which capacity she also served as Director of the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute. Other positions she has held include Associate Managing Director of Center Stage in Baltimore and Marketing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. Preceding her theater career, she practiced securities litigation with the Boston law firm of Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett.
During her first tenure on the Yale-China Board from 2014 to 2020, Joan served as Board Secretary, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee, Chair of the Arts Committee, and a member of Executive Committee. She has been on the boards of the Foundry Theatre, Yale Cabaret, National Corporate Theatre Fund, League of Professional Theatre Women, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, American Theatre Exchange Initiative, Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts, and Chase Brexton Health Services, an LGBTQ community health care center. She has also been a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, the International Theatre Institute executive council, and the League of Resident Theatres executive committee. Joan taught for six years in Goucher College’s graduate arts administration program and has guest lectured at various universities, including the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. At Yale, she is a fellow of Benjamin Franklin College and sits on the Schwarzman Center’s faculty advisory committee. She is a graduate of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Yale School of Drama.
Former President, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Former Yale-China Fellow
Nancy has a long association with Yale-China, having served as a Yale Bachelor (Teaching Fellow) in Hong Kong and Changsha (1978-81), Assistant Field Staff Director (1981-82), Trustee (mid-1980s), and Executive Director (1994-2008). She also wrote a history of the Yale-China Association on the occasion of its Centennial celebration in 2001.
In addition to her long service to Yale-China, Nancy served for twelve years as President of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, a century-old philanthropy that provides support to colleges and universities in 15 countries of Asia. She also held positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Nancy received a B.A. in History from Yale and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in East Asian Studies from Princeton.
U.S.-China Strategic Consultant
Amy Chen is a U.S.-China strategic consultant, advising corporate and non-profit organizations on U.S.-China geopolitical and regulatory matters. She also lectures on U.S.-China relations at the UC Irvine Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and serves on the UC Irvine Law School’s Board of Visitors.
For over 20 years, as a tech attorney based in Hong Kong and then California, Amy developed expertise in various areas at the intersection of business, law and U.S.-China relations, including antitrust, anti-corruption, capital markets, CFIUS, data privacy, intellectual property, crisis management and corporate risk controls. During this period,
Amy worked for several multinational tech companies, including Alibaba during its startup stage, Juniper Networks, Broadcom and Ingram Micro. Amy started her career with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York. Amy graduated from Yale University (magna cum laude) with a B.A. in economics and political science and from Columbia Law School with a J.D. Amy is based in Newport Beach, California and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Director of China Programs at Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Cui Fengming serves as the Director of China Programs at Harvard Law School Project on Disability. She is a Senior Follow of China Renmin University Disability Law Clinic and also served as an Adjunct Professor at China Renmin University School of Law. Ms. Fengming’s main scholarly interests, publications, and public interest work focus on issues of Chinese disability studies, disability laws, and policies in China; disability-inclusive education, employment, and community; organizations of persons with disabilities, their leadership and equal participation and general social development; Parent organization and family system support. She has regularly taught disability rights law and protection courses at China Renmin University School of Law since 2015 and a rights in inclusive education course at Nanjing College of Special Education since 2018. She holds an Ed.M. in higher education from Nanjing University in China and Ed.D. in special education from Boston University in the United States.
Senior Advisor for Global Strategy at Yale University
Don provides support for OIA and Yale’s international activities and projects with partner universities. Following his retirement in 2024 as associate vice president for global strategy after 24 years at Yale, Don continues in an advisory capacity for the 2024-25 academic year. Prior to his career at Yale, where he was the founding Director of the Office of International Affairs, Don served in a number of capacities at Connecticut College from 1991 to 2000 including Vice President for Community and Public Affairs, Secretary of the College, and Acting Vice President for Development. He worked for former U.S. Representative Bruce A. Morrison of New Haven from 1985 to 1991.
James and Susan Moeser Executive and Artistic Director for Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) at University of North Carolina
Alison M. Friedman took up her position at CPA in October 2021 after 20 years living and working in China. Prior to CPA, Friedman was Artistic Director of Performing Arts for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, one of the world's largest arts and cultural developments. Previously she founded and ran Ping Pong Productions, a US- and Beijing-registered cultural exchange organization that works in more than 50 countries on five continents, producing works with and launching the careers of artists like TAO Dance Theater, director Wang Chong, and others. Her productions have toured Lincoln Center, Sydney Opera House, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, China's National Centre for the Performing Arts, Shanghai International Arts Festival and other leading venues and festivals.
She has served as international director of Beijing Modern Dance Company and general manager of Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun’s company, as well as a producer and host on Chinese national radio and television programs.
She was a 2002-03 Fulbright Scholar to China, a John F. Kennedy Center arts management fellow, and a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program. She is fluent in Mandarin.
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Dr. Evelyn Hsieh is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) at Yale, and Chief of Rheumatology for the VA Connecticut HealthCare System. She enjoys caring for patients and teaching on the medical wards of the West Haven VA Medical Center.
With a longstanding interest in global health, Evelyn’s research focuses on epidemiology, and prevention strategies for musculoskeletal health among individuals with HIV in China. The tools developed through this work have also translated to projects in other low-resource settings, including Peru. Finally, she has a commitment to medical education and global health research training for US and foreign trainees.
Evelyn’s work has been supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Rheumatology Research Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and China Medical Board. She is a co-founder of the Yale Network for Global Non-Communicable Diseases, a 2018-19 U.S.-China Fulbright Scholar, and chair of the American College of Rheumatology’s Global Engagement Special Committee.
Senior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group
Kenneth Jarrett is a senior advisor with the Albright Stonebridge Group, a strategic advisory firm based in Washington, DC. He previously served as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai from September 2013 to December 2018. Prior to that he was the Greater China Chairman for APCO Worldwide, a Washington-based public affairs consultancy from 2008 to 2013.
Before joining the private sector, Mr. Jarrett was a U.S. diplomat from 1982 to 2008. During his 26-year diplomatic career, his postings included Consul General in Shanghai, Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong, and Director of Asian Affairs at the White House National Security Council. He also served in Beijing, Chengdu, Singapore, Manila and Washington, DC.
Mr. Jarrett holds a B.A. in history from Cornell University, an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University and an M.S. in National Security Studies from the National War College. He started his Chinese language studies in 1974 at the Yale-in-China Chinese Language Center at New Asia College, Chinese University, Hong Kong, and was an English teacher in Shanghai from 1979 to 1981.
Mr. Jarrett has lived in the Greater China area for over 30 years. He now divides his time between Shanghai and New York. He is a frequent commentator on the business environment in China, and has been quoted in outlets including Bloomberg, Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Los Angeles Times among others. He is a member of the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations.
Senior Fellow at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University
Elizabeth Knup is a Senior Fellow at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University where she teaches about contemporary Chinese governance systems and how international organizations work both in and with China in the current era. Prior to joining the Jackson School she served as the Regional Director for China at the Ford Foundation from 2013-2023 where she oversaw Ford’s operations in China and its programmatic strategies focused on US-China relations, understanding China’s political and economic power in the world, and strengthening China’s domestic philanthropic sector.
Elizabeth moved to China in 1998 to be the American Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies after serving ten years at the National Committee on US-China Relations. She then spent 11 years in the private sector as President, Pearson Education China; Chief Representative, Pearson Group; and Managing Director, Kamsky Associates.
Elizabeth is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on US-China Relations and she serves as an Advisor to the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University of Cairo, as an Advisor to the Penn Project on the Future of US-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and as a Senior Advisor to China Focus at The Carter Center. She recently joined the Board of the American Mandarin Society and the US-China Education Trust.
Founding Partner at Betatron Venture Group
Kevin Kwong is a Founding Partner at Betatron Venture Group, an early-stage venture capital firm licensed in Hong Kong, with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. The fund is a co-investment partner of the Innovation and Technology Venture Fund of the Hong Kong SAR Government.
Kevin began his career in Tokyo, working in equities trading at Lehman Brothers before moving to Credit Suisse to focus on event-driven and special situations trading. Upon returning to Hong Kong, he joined Citadel Investment Group as a Co-Head of the Principal Investment team. He later became a founding partner of Senrigan Capital Group, a Blackstone-seeded event-driven hedge fund.
Kevin graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics and from London School of Economics with an MSc in Finance and Economics.
PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FNYAM, FAAN
Independence Foundation Professor at the Yale School of Nursing, Director of the Justice, Community Capacity & Equity Core in the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at the Yale School of Public Health
LaRon E. Nelson co-leads The Li Foundation Faculty Social & Behavioral Science Seed Grant Program which promotes interdisciplinary research collaborations between nursing and public health faculty in the United States and China. Dr. Nelson is also a faculty mentor in the China Medical Board’s Global Health Equity Scholar’s Program at Yale where he mentors China-based university faculty in conducting global health research studies around the world.
Previously, Dr. Nelson served as Associate Dean of Global Affairs & Planetary Health at Yale School of Nursing where he led the establishment of academic cooperation and faculty research collaborations with Central South University, Peking University, University of Hong Kong, University of Tokyo, and the Accra School of Hygiene. Dr. Nelson’s research focuses on developing and testing multi-level strategies to stop the spread of the HIV epidemic in the United States, Canada, Ghana, and Kenya. His work also involves the testing strategies to implement rapid treatment of post-traumatic stress symptoms caused by exposure to extreme wet weather events. His work has been sponsored by the National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute of Mental Health, Canadian Institute of Health Research, and The Li Foundation. He is an elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and in the American Academy of Nursing.
Principal of Meyerson Quest Limited
Drew Nuland is Principal of Meyerson Quest Limited, a US/China based consultancy specializing in corporate transformation and M&A in premium consumer-retail segments. Since establishing Meyerson Quest in 2007 Drew has partnered with over 40 financial sponsors, multinationals and founder/entrepreneurs on long-term corporate transformations, buy-side and sell-side mandates, and strategic initiatives aimed at step-changing their businesses.
Prior to launching Meyerson Quest, Drew ran several multinational businesses in China, including establishing then running the Bacardi Group’s China operations for ten years, leading one of China’s first foreign-invested television production enterprises (SOSA TV) and managing new product development/marketing for Bristol Myers Squibb’s China division. Drew first went to China on a two-year Yale-China Association teaching fellowship at Hunan Medical University in Changsha. He later ran large, China-based epidemiology studies on behalf of the US National Cancer Institute and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
Drew serves on several corporate and not-for-profit boards and is currently the Chairman of Toys”R”Us Asia, leading the company’s restructuring following the bankruptcy of its US parent. Drew is also an adjunct professor in the Global Leadership Program at SMU’s Cox School of Business. Drew holds a BA in History, with additional concentration in Biochemistry from Yale University, an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business and an MA in International Studies/Chinese from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences and the Lauder Institute of International Studies. Having lived in China for over 30 years, Drew now lives in Princeton NJ and travels frequently to Asia.
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research at the Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dongshu is an Assembly Fellow at Chung Chi College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Faculty Affiliate at the Centre for Population Research. She served as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge during 2016/17 as a recipient of the Clare Hall Visiting Fellowship. She has been a member of Yale-China Education Committee since 2020.
Dongshu specializes in the economics of education. Her two core areas of interest are the impact and consequences of educational reforms and the interactions of human capital and immigrant integration. Her research has received support from prestigious institutions in Hong Kong and beyond, including the British Academy and Hong Kong's Research General Council (RGC).
Prior to joining CUHK, she held the position of Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Additionally, she also worked with UNICEF, the Ford Foundation, and New Visions for Public Schools. Dongshu is a graduate of Lingnan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University where she received English lessons from Yale-China Teaching Fellows. She received her MA, MPhil and PhD in Economics and Education from Columbia University.
Director of International Programs, Development and Alumni Relations, Johns Hopkins University
Former Yale-China Fellow
Hugh’s experience as a Yale-China teaching fellow at Yali Middle School from 2008-2010 sparked his commitment to international collaboration, educational initiatives, and people-to-people exchange.
Today, Hugh is director of international programs in the Johns Hopkins University’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations, guiding the university and medical institutions’ international fundraising and external affairs. Hugh brings over 15 years in professional and volunteer roles related to international business development and education, with 10 years at Johns Hopkins in progressive fundraising roles. Previously, he was Director of Advancement for Asia at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Hugh worked before that as an engineer in New Orleans and supported the international expansion of a private U.S. engineering company in Africa and the Middle East.
Hugh holds a Master of International Public Policy degree in economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Bachelor of Arts in Classics (Latin) from Yale University.
Medical Director and Co-Owner of NewPath Diagnostics, LLC, New York City, NY
Jianyou Tan is the Medical Director and co-owner of NewPath Diagnostics, LLC, a regional diagnostic pathology service laboratory in metropolitan New York. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Rutgers University Medical Schools. Prior to that, Dr. Tan served as assistant professor of pathology at New-York Presbyterian (Weil Cornell Medical College), Ichan School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Medical Director and Chairman of Pathology of BioReference Laboratories, and Co-director of Melanoma and Soft Tissue Tumor Program at Hackensack University Hospital.
Dr. Tan finished his medical education at Xiangya Medical School (1980 to 85) and at Peking Union Medical College (1985 to 88). After obtaining a PhD in Pharmacology at Wayne State University in Michigan, he pursued residency and fellowship training in pathology at New York University Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. A licensed surgical and clinical pathologist, Dr. Tan has been involved with surgical pathology practice, teaching and research for over 25 years, working on challenging issues of diagnostic pathology and leading to more than 20 publications. He is best known in the pathology community for his work on gastrointestinal disorders and dermatological neoplasms. A successful professional entrepreneur with pathology services in New York and China, Dr. Tan has been involved with many non-profit and charitable organizations including the Museum of Chinese in America, Yale-China Association, and the Association of Chinese American Physicians (ACAP). He is the founding president of the ACAP pathology chapter and serves as a board member of the Xiangya Overseas Alumni Association. His success in his career and contribution to local communities led him to be chosen for the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans In Business Award in 2018.
Co-Founder, Atelier Cho Thompson, New Haven, CT
Former Yale-China Fellow
Ming Thompson is co-founder of Atelier Cho Thompson, a New Haven- and San Francisco-based multidisciplinary practice working between architecture, interiors, graphics, and strategy. ACT's work frequently blurs the boundaries between typologies, as they draw inspiration from their work in schools, offices, restaurants, and homes around the world. Ming was a recipient of the AIA Young Architect Award in 2020, and her firm has been the recipient of numerous national and regional design awards. ACT’s work has been published in Architect, Contract, Arch Daily, and Design Milk, among others. Educated at Yale College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Ming has taught at the California College of the Arts and has served on design juries around the U.S. Ming is a first-year advisor at Yale.
Chief Operating Officer, Goodnotes, Hong Kong
Former Yale-China Fellow
Minh Ngan Tran (MC '09) began his 15-year journey with Yale-China in the summer of 2007, when he traveled to Hong Kong as a Yale-China Summer Exchange Intern at New Asia College. After graduation in 2009, he taught 5th grade math and science in Los Angeles for two years before returning to the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow. Upon completing his fellowship, Minh remained in Hong Kong and joined EF Education First, a global private education company with 500 schools and offices in 50 countries. In his seven-year tenure at EF, he led English language research and training partnerships with Harvard University, Peking University, Cambridge University as well as national and regional ministries of education from Brazil to Italy to the Republic of Tatarstan to Vietnam. He also led the launch of the EF Standard English Test (EF SET), a free and online alternative to the expensive TOEFL and TOEIC tests.
When the pandemic hit, Minh decided to take on a more local role and became the founding Executive Director of Bloom Academy, a newly established private K-12 bilingual school of innovation in Hong Kong. After Bloom Academy launched, Minh moved to Goodnotes, a beloved note-taking app that is used by 15M students around the world. As Vice President of Operations and Academic Affairs, he oversees Goodnotes' two offices in Hong Kong and London as well as all of its business teams, including legal, finance, IT, office administration, catering, people ops, talent, sales and marketing. He is thrilled to support Goodnotes' transition from a personal note-taking tool to a digital paper platform that allows students and educators to collaborate in innovative ways.
Minh holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Yale and a Doctor of Education from the University of Hong Kong. He is a founding Board Member of the Yale International Alliance and Just Feel, a section 88 charity that promotes social-emotional education in underprivileged Hong Kong primary schools.
Senior Program Officer and Senior Policy Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle & Beijing
Health Economist
Dr. Hong Wang, MD, PhD, has over 30 years of experience in health policy, with a focus on health economics, financing, and systems in developing countries. He is currently employed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) as a Senior Program Officer and Senior Policy Advisor in Foundation’s China Country office (CCO). He manages several grant portfolios to address domestic public health policy issues, such as primary healthcare system strengthening, child nutrition improvement, TB multi-channel financing and provider payment, and COVID-19 related public health emergency responses and health system improvements. In addition, He supports China-for-Africa policy analysis and advocacy activities. Before joining the CCO, he serves as a Senior Program Officer in the Integrated Delivery team at the headquarter of BMGF in Seattle. His responsibilities included taking the leading intellectual and implementation roles in the formulation of the Gates Foundation position on the critical issues in health economics, financing, and systems, particularly related to primary health care (PHC) development. Dr. Wang also holds the position of Affiliate Professor at the Department of Global Health, University of Washington, USA.
Before joined BMGF, Dr. Wang was a Principal Associate/Senior Health Economist in Abt Associates Inc. USA; He worked as the technical lead on health financing-related projects in India, Indonesia, Bangladeshi, Nigeria, Liberia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, Mali, and other LMICs.
Dr. Wang was an Assistant and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Global Health Division at Yale School of Public Health, USA, an Associate Professor and Acting Director in the Health Economics Department at Beijing Medical University, China, and an Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director at National Health Economics Institute of Ministry of Health, China. Dr. In addition, Dr. Wang served as a technical advisor to the World Bank, WHO, UNICEF, and DFID, and governments in LMICs for their health policy and financing related projects and policy developments.
Dr. Wang graduated from Beijing Medical University (Medical Degree) and University of Wisconsin/Madison (Ph.D. in Population Health and Health Economics).
Head of School, Packer Collegiate Institute
Former Yale-China Fellow
Jen has been fortunate to have made her way around the world as an educator. She, her husband, two teenage kids, and two cats currently live in Brooklyn.
Jen grew up in Dobbs Ferry, NY and graduated from Yale in 1994 with a BA in history. After several years working at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, Jen accepted the Yale-China Fellowship, which was a transformational life experience: New Asia CUHK, 1996-7; Ningbo, 1997-8. She then returned to New Haven to work on educational programs at Yale-China (under the inspired leadership of Nancy Chapman).
Jen earned an MA in English Education from Columbia Teachers College (student teaching in Chinatown) and then taught at New Rochelle High School. She moved to Atlanta for her husband to go to graduate school and she was delighted to find a professional home at Atlanta International School. During their years there, they had two kids and Jen also completed an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy at Peabody College Vanderbilt (thanks to the great support from her Nashville based in-laws who cared for her kids while she studied).
Jen started in school leadership as Middle School Head at Atlanta International School. She then moved back to China as the Superintendent for Educational Programs and Student Learning at Shanghai American School. Next, she led Copenhagen International School in Denmark. In 2019 she returned to the States as Head of School at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn (a PreK - 12th grade independent school). She also serves on the Boards of the Windward School and the Guild of Independent Schools of NYC.
Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
Former Yale-China Fellow
Based in Washington, D.C., Cindy is a project manager at McKinsey & Company, where they lead teams consulting for public and private sector entities on energy transition topics. Cindy also leads the local social impact interest group, which delivers hundreds of hours of pro bono service annually. Last year, Cindy was a Blakemore Freeman Fellow based in Taipei studying Classical Chinese at the International Chinese Language Program of National Taiwan University. In the spring of 2020, Cindy served as a volunteer policy advisor to Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr in Freetown, Sierra Leone, drafting the city's first climate action plan.
After earning a B.S. from Yale, Cindy taught English and conducted fieldwork on education inequality as a Yale-China Fellow at the Central China Normal University in Wuhan (华中师范大学), and presented their research at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Cindy is also an avid violinist, performing regularly with orchestras and chamber music groups.