International Chapters
North America
Evan Hudson
Evan Hudson is currently finishing up his Masters of Arts in Education in Teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His program offers a free Community English program for adult learners in the Birmingham area, and he is proud to offer the LingoX curriculum to the student teachers who lead the classes. Evan is passionate about the power of communication and its ability to benefit people in multiple ways, and he has worked previously as a health coach focused on improving outcomes based on behavior change. Evan is hoping to do further research utilizing second language acquisition into pre-existing behavior change models to show how learning languages can improve health outcomes in a future doctorate program.
Clio Wang
Clio grew up in China, where she felt like English was simply another evaluation in the school system. She learned grammar and vocabulary for testing, but never focused much on conversation. It wasn’t until she moved to the USA that she started to see language as a tool — not just for evaluations, but to connect with one's local community. Grocery stores, restaurants, and doctor’s visits are one thing, but the ability to have genuine conversations with the people around you means a lot. Clio is a lifelong learner, and the more fluent she has become in English, the more she has observed the differences between it and her first language of Chinese. These differences have helped her understand English even more. She wants to teach other adult learners in her community to help them make the same connections that she has.
Gabriela Romero
Gabriela Romero grew up in La Chorrera, Panama. She is an ESL teacher and promoter of reading and culture. In 2011, she traveled to South Korea for a Korean language and culture program, where she started her tutoring journey. She is currently finishing a Postgraduate in Reading Pedagogy with the Argentinian Foundation Mempo Giardinelli. She is deeply interested in accessibility and inclusive education, which has encouraged her to learn Panamanian sign language and other teaching strategies to be able to support all her students. She has been teaching English at a local cultural center since 2021.
Facundina Chacón
Facundina Chacón is from La Chorrera, Panama. She has worked in the educational sector for more than 25 years. She has a Master's in Human Resources and is currently collaborating with her daughter to lead a language education and cultural program. She is greatly passionate about promoting inclusivity in learning.
Eugenio Ciarlandini
Eugenio Ciarlandini is a current year 12 student at Upper Canada College, in Toronto, Ontario. His life has always revolved around the powers of his voice, from his passions for choral singing, justice, advocacy and diplomacy. He is an avid member of the Upper Canada College Model UN club, and has sung since his early years with St. Michael’s Choir School, and the Toronto Youth choir. In future, he hopes to raise his voice to fight for those that need to be heard through law, and international relations. Some of his interests include reading, city planning, exploring new places and baseball analytics. He speaks both English and French.
Jerry Jia
Born in Nanjing, China, Jerry Immigrated to Canada at age 6. First living in Montreal, he quickly became fluent in French. For several years, he studied at Selwyn House School, a bilingual institution, where he developed both his English and French abilities. In 2015, he moved to Toronto to attend Upper Canada College, the most prestigious all-boys private school in Canada. In the summer of 2022, Jerry travelled to Iowa City to participate in the highly competitive and infamous Iowa Young Writer’s Studio, created by the U of Iowa’s MFA writer’s workshop.
Asia
Christina Chen
Christina Chen is a first-year student at The University of Manchester. Previously, she studied at Chongqing No.1 International High School. Christina is very interested in media and excited about the exchange of information in the age of the Internet. Christina enjoys dancing, singing and listening to music in her daily life.
Lynn Zhang
Lynn recently graduated from Chongqing Yucai Secondary School and is currently attending university. She is a hospitable, kind and enthusiastic person, making her capable of smoothly communicating with anyone. In addition, she has taken part in many English speech contests, coming 21st in the English News Speech Competition and 2nd at a prestigious China Daily event. In her free time, she loves dancing, exercising, and taking photos — these hobbies encourage Lynn to enjoy life to its full extent.
Anastasia Mo
Anastasia Mo (Anastasia Lorente) is a senior high student at Chongqing Nankai International Study Center. She is an avid music lover with an artistic soul, as well as a huge fan of painting and dancing. She plans on majoring in abnormal psychology and dreams of being a criminal psychologist. Her passion for psychology, art, and environmental protection fulfill her life.
Ethan Chen
Ethan Chen, a graduate of Chongqing No. 1 Secondary School, currently studies abroad in Canada. He is fiercely interested in finance and economics. He also enjoys participating in public welfare activities. In his spare time, he is fond of playing basketball and playing percussion instruments.
Daisy Wang
Daisy Wang is a student of Chongqing No.1 International High School. She is passionate about Math, Physics, and Economics. Daisy plans on majoring in either law or biochemistry in college. When she is free, she likes to listen to K-pop and watch SF.
Maggie Liu
Maggie Liu is a rising Sophomore at LSE majoring in sociology. She is particularly interested in investigating social inequality through a multi-dimensional approach, excited about how perspectives from different fields within social science interact with each other to unveil the complexity of modern issues. She loves sophisticated theories, but she enjoys detailed life experiences more. While keeping a keen interest in what is going on within and beyond Chinese society, she also loves hanging out with friends, forming connections with new people, playing and making music of her own (particularly of an impressionist style), and she has been an experienced Chinese folk dancer for over ten years.
Derek Zhang
Derek currently studies in the United States, though he previously attended Shenzhen College of International Education, where he was the class leader and a member of the school football team. He has a diverse set of interests and is particularly passionate about STEM. Confidence and tenacity are his major characteristics. His motto is as follows: “As long as my heart is full of persistence and love, everything will turn out just fine!”
Vicky Zheng
Vicky Zheng is an A1 student of Shenzhen College of International Education. Her main academic interests lie in emotive education and language cognitive education. She is not only a theorist but also a pragmatist who enjoys putting the educational theories she learns in class into practice. For leisure, she likes listening to music and dancing.
Gary Yukun
Having participated in volunteer teaching programs in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Shenzhen, China, Gary recognizes how the ability to speak and utilize English may change the life of the impoverished. Gary will be studying sociology at London School of Economics and Political Science. He loves to explore the differences among different cultures and discuss the world’s issues with others. In his free time, Gary enjoys reading, watching movies, traveling, and, perhaps strangely, strolling around the city to observe people and ponder about life.
Europe
Alvin Zhou
Alvin Zhou is a fifth year student at Eton College, taking Maths, Modern History, Latin and Ancient Greek for A Levels. He is particularly passionate about Ancient History and Classical literature , having written articles about topics such as the Second Punic War and translated famous passages of the Iliad and Aeneid. Outside of academics, Alvin is a keen singer, an avid gym-goer, and a fan of field hockey. He also enjoys a game of Minecraft now and then!
Oceania
Kristine Peng
Kristine is a scholarship student at the Berklee College of Music, double majoring in Film Scoring and Contemporary Writing and Production. She has played the piano for over ten years and has been awarded the highest Grade Examination certifications by the Chinese Musicians’ Association and Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She started learning composition by herself when she was in high school and currently works on scoring alongside the university's student director. As for Kristine’s educational experience, she grew up in Chongqing, China, then went to Auckland, New Zealand, for her high school education, before moving to Boston, United States. She is fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English.