Editorial Board and Writers Bio

Heidi is a Business Analyst working in the financial services industry to carry out agile IT projects. She is also studying MSc Advanced Cyber Security at King’s College London. To her surprise, IT has come to her way in career as well as hobby when she studied politics as an undergraduate and had a taste of International Relations in the University of Warwick in the exchange programme.

Outside work, she was the Business Affairs Director of JCI Hong Kong Jayceettes to advocate female entrepreneurship and empowerment. She was honoured to interview celebrities including Stephy Tang, Louis Cheung, Stephanie Au, Fa Jeh ( 花姐 ) etc. With her devotion to community services, she also contributed articles to JESSICA Magazine and her marketing proposal was adopted by HKSAR.

Heidi is a sports-lover and can often be found on the mountains, in the sea or in the air.

In 2021, she hopes to aspire people to serve for the greater good. The world cannot be liveable if we are all egoistic. Be nice. Be kind. These are her living philosophy as nothing can be taken granted for. Stay tuned! :)

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hangyuwong/

Heidi Wong

FS15/16, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Mavis received the Li & Fung Scholarship for a one-year exchange at The University of Liverpool during which she had the opportunity to study different subjects, explore towns in Britain and work at a Chinese restaurant to enrich her overseas experience. She studied Psychology and is now a current Master candidate in Social Service Management.

Mavis is now working as an administrator in the Hong Kong higher education/nonprofit sector. In her own time, she teaches young pupils, provides writing guidance for job seekers, and provides volunteering services.

Mavis loves distance running, breadmaking and has an unknowing passion for burgers. She looks forward to meeting new FS buddies — to join hands for the social good and share happiness in food and sports missions.

Mavis Fan

FS13/14, The University of Hong Kong

Editor

Jing is now an undergraduate at Xiamen University majoring in Anthropology, and will pursue her master degree in Higher Education at Renmin University from 2021 to 2023. She received Fung Scholarship in the fall of 2019 during her exchange at the University of Hong Kong. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, writing, traveling and communicating with people from different backgrounds. Her interested issues include gender equality, social stratification in education, identity, etc. As an outgoing and energetic girl, she hopes to obtain a PhD degree overseas and grow into an excellent professor, researcher and writer.

Editor

Jason received the Fung Scholarship as an exchange student in computer science at University of Hong Kong from Peking University. He is currently doing doctoral research in machine learning and reinforcement learning at University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. He has done a variety of research including e-government, healthcare, digital finance. He has also worked in tech start-up companies in both Beijing and New York. He has been involved with the Fung Scholar Beijing Chapter.

During free time, he enjoys swimming, fitness, and cooking. For more information, please visit his website jasondou.org.

Jing Zhang

FS19/20, Xiamen University

Jason Dou

FS12/13, Peking University

Editor

Crystal studied Political Science and Strategic Management at the Singapore Management University and graduated in July 2019. She received the Fung Scholarship in 2017 to support her exchange in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

She is now managing international sales at a manufacturing company with a geographical focus on North America and Europe.

Crystal enjoys both staying at home and physical outdoor activities. To her, catching up on Netflix is as enjoyable as heading out for a run. In 2021, she hopes to be able to complete a half-marathon and become a more well-rounded and holistic individual. Speak to her any time on personal fitness, tech, and political theory :)

Crystal Ang

FS17/18, Singapore Management University

Designer

Naomi is a fresh graduate from the University of Hong Kong and is currently working as a landscape designer.

She received Fung Scholarship during 2019/20 for a semester exchange at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Her discipline, landscape architecture, has its academic origin in the States and many contemporary scholars and projects that she has been studying are from this country. The exchange experience is indeed an invaluable one for her to have a personal touch with all the projects that she has heard about, read about but had never laid eyes on.

As an individual, she loves discovering beautiful things around her; natural sceneries, exquisite architectures, and artwork are what attract her the most. She also enjoys designing anything visually appealing which always catches her attention.

Website: https://chanszewahnaomi.webflow.io/

Naomi Chan

FS19/20, The University of Hong Kong

WRITERS

Tahira is currently doing her postgraduate in Development Studies at University of Dhaka. Earlier, she graduated with a Bachelor degree in Economics from Asian University for Women (AUW), Chittagong, Bangladesh. Before starting her postgraduate, Tahira worked as a program officer under a special project named “Pathways for Promise” in AUW. While working, she got the opportunity to interact with students from diverse backgrounds (tea garden workers, garment workers etc.) She was born and brought up in the same city where she is studying now. Tahira has been actively participating in various volunteer activities from the very beginning of her school life since she joined Girls’ Guide Association Bangladesh, and has continued doing that throughout her university life. She has been teaching children in community school as a member of the Community Teacher’s Club of her university. Besides, she has also worked with visually impaired children of Chittagong while working as a member of a volunteer organization. Tahira is trying to make herself occupied with reading various books in this Covid-19 period. Apart from her work, Tahira loves travelling and singing a lot!

Tahira Tazreen

FS14/15, Asian University for Women Kathleen holds a bachelor’s and master’s from MIT, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in International Relations and Politics. Her primary research focuses on water security in the Middle East and North Africa, and the role of freshwater in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She has worked, studied, and conducted research in 12 countries on 5 continents on issues related to water security, international development, and the intersection between urban planning and technology. She is the founder of the GATE Olympics, the Central Coast and MIT Science Bowls, and has worked for the US Department of Energy, the US Department of State, and with a variety of academic institutions, special interest groups, NGOs, industries and local governments on topics ranging from STEM education, international relations, environmental policy, defense innovation and conflict resolution. In the fall, Kathleen will be beginning her MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Kathleen Schwind

FS17/18, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jamie spent more than 5 years as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, solving business challenges with large companies and global social organisations. She spent some time as the Director of Strategy and Business Development at Pulsifi, a HR-tech start-up, before moving to Grab, a super app platform in Southeast Asia. At Grab’s Regional Public Affairs team at Grab, she partners with different teams and organizations to empower Southeast Asia, and to make everyday lives better in the region.

Outside work, she founded the Fung Scholars Singapore Chapter, and also started www.mademyown.co, a space dedicated to making things with her own hands, and Craft for Conversations, to explore how craft can be used as conversation starters for social issues: https://www.instagram.com/ craftforconversations/ Karlie is currently serving at a local Christian secondary school. She realized the necessity of counselling and instilling intrinsic humanity values to nourish those little seedlings at a school setting which makes her fond of Counselling & Psychology related books. Besides teaching, she aspires to incorporate art elements into counselling therapy, raising more awareness and practice on mental health.

She received Fung Scholarship in 2011 for her exchange in Germany which she had explored not only the core subject Art & Design, but also got to know German and some intangible treasures like culture along the journey.

Jamie Ko

FS09/10, Singapore Management University

Karlie Chen

FS11/12, Hong Kong Baptist University

Nikita participated in Beijing Normal University’s International Youth Leadership Programme in 2014, funded by a Fung scholarship. The amazing experience of collaborating with university students from around the world led her to return to China to study at Shandong Normal University (Jinan) in 2016.

Mostly recently Nikita has returned to the UK from Nanjing, where she spent almost a year and a half working as an editor for a major Chinese telecommunications company. She has passed HSK 3 and looks forward to improving her Chinese language skills, as well as learning to bake pineapple buns ( 菠萝包 )! Ken graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019. During his studies he was supported by the Fung Scholar programme to complete an exchange programme at University of Sheffield. He is currently teaching English language at St. Mark’s School. He is passionate about education and music.

Ken is also a co-head in FS Hong Kong Chapter. He is committed to organising and participating in FS events. In 2018, he served as an emcee at FS leadership conference and the co-chair of Christmas Party.

Nikita Hayward

FS14/15, University of Oxford

Ken Fung

FS16/17, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yong Xin obtained a B.A (Hons) in History at Lingnan University in 2010 and M.A in Linguistics in Tromsø-Arkhangelsk program in 2017. She was awarded the Li & Fung Scholarship for exchange study in Austria in 2009 and Quota Scholarship for the Tromsø-Arkhangelsk program in Russia in the Northern (Arctic) Federal University and Norway in the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø from 2015 to 2017. For four years in Scandinavia, she worked on improving civil society, such as Tromsø International Film Festival, International Student Union and SAIH Norway. In the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NiAS) in Denmark in 2019, she held a talk on peacebuilding for the displaced settlements since the Second World War.

Currently, She is volunteering in ESN Tromsø and finishing a collaborative research paper with the faculty of Visual Anthropology in UiT for Pax et Bellum Journal in the field of Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Uppsala. Aileen recently graduated from the University of Oxford with a first in Chinese. During her studies, she was supported by the Fung scholar program to complete her year abroad at PKU where she advanced her language skills and volunteered as an English and Science teacher through the Beijing Migrant Children’s Foundation.

Aileen was also a winner of the 2018 Fung Conference social innovation competition, securing funding to help support the growth of her social enterprise “The British Mile Relays” which aims to encourage women to participate in grassroots sport with their male friends or relatives on equal terms. Unable to organize the relays this year due to the pandemic, Aileen has focused instead on supporting her family, friends and fellow runners at the grassroots athletics club Wirral AC to help keep young people active throughout the pandemic by organising virtual events, socially distanced training sessions and online strength and conditioning through Zoom.

Yong Xin Mo

FS08/09, Lingnan University

Aileen Kearney

FS18/19, University of Oxford

- Fung Scholars Network Newsletter Mar 2021 -