Degree/graduating year - B.A. 2014', Ph.D (in Education) 2020'
Location – Guangdong, China
Current Job – Assistant Professor in Comparative Education, Beijing
Normal University (Zhuhai campus); Visiting Assistant Professor,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
3 fun facts – I love singing in choirs; I have dined at every single dining hall and cafeteria on Harvard campus except for those in the
longwoods area (and Gutman cafe is the best); my current hairstyle is almost exactly the same as what I had as a teenager.
Why did you join HAEd? – Because I work in the field of education!
How did you get involved in education? – I gathered a group of friends and started a summer camp for migrant children in urban villages in
Guangzhou (the city that I grew up in) the summer after graduating from high school. It was an experience that opened our eyes to the deep inequalities that shaped our own trajectories and separated children from different backgrounds. Before I knew it, we are celebrating the 13th year of the project (Clover Youth, now a nonprofit organization with a small but professional full-time staff) and I am conducting research on and teaching about educational and social inequality for a career.
What is something that inspires you? – the smiles, laughs and mischief
of my 14-month-old daughter!
What is the most memorable experience you remember from your time at
Harvard? – I sometimes find it hard to believe that I have spent 12 years – well over a third of my life – at Harvard, first as an undergraduate student, then as a doctoral student and finally as a
postdoctoral fellow and faculty member. The most important memories that I am taking away from these experiences are the incredible people
that I met here. I draw a lot of inspiration from my beloved mentors (Meira Levinson, Howard Gardner, Bob Selman and Helen Haste) at HGSE
as well as my academic role-models Arthur Kleinman (psychiatrist and medical anthropologist) and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (sociologist and portraitist). Each of them played a huge role in deepening my understanding and expanding my imagination of how to live a moral life and build a meaningful career in this precarious world.
