International Women's Day Forum will take place in XJTLU

International Women's Day Forum will take place in XJTLU on 8th March.

Join six female leaders from the fields of finance, technology, entrepreneurship, non-profit, writing and education to hear their personal stories of overcoming challenges and creating opportunities.

Students, staff, faculty and friends of XJTLU of all genders and ages are invited to learn how to achieve positive change in their personal and professional lives and better business results at the workplace through balance and equality.

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GUEST SPEAKERS

Professor Qiuling Chao has been designated vice president for student affairs and information at XJTLU since March 2018. Professor Chao is a professor of School of Public Policy and Administration at Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTLU) and currently the deputy director of Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges. Professor Chao has a professional background in English, pedagogy, and psychology, and has many years of experience engaging in higher education research. In 2005, she received her PhD in education supporting her in-depth knowledge of higher education.

Professor Qiuling Chao has been taking lead of many scientific projects, under the support of both national and international foundations of social science studies. She has also actively participated in publishing academic papers and books, for example, “The Enlightenment of the Britain Cultivation System of Innovative Talents to Our Education”, and “The Psychological Health Education and Ego-development of Female Undergraduate” .

Lenora Chu is an author, journalist, educational consultant and media strategist with 15 years’ experience in the U.S. and China. Lenora is an internationally-recognized expert on Chinese education who has appeared on NPR, CBS, the BBC, and CBC. Her articles and op-eds have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and New York magazine. Her award-winning book Little Soldiers has been hailed as a voice for international education reform. Its treatment of China’s education system won the Nautilus Award, the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ top nonfiction prize, and was also shortlisted for the Stanford University Libraries' Saroyan International Prize.

Little Soldiers has been published worldwide and with translations forthcoming in a number of languages, including Hungarian, Russian and Chinese.

Charlene Liu was born in Malaysia and has lived in the US, Singapore, and now Shanghai.

She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BSc in Electrical Engineering and has 20 years of working experience in different areas of the electronics and semiconductor industry, ranging from design, engineering, manufacturing to sales. Charlene is currently consultant manager at PwC.

Aside from her profession, Charlene has 13 years of social entrepreneurship and commercial event management experience in China.

In 2009, she co-founded ShanghaiPRIDE, an annual festival run entirely by volunteers that promotes diversity, in 2014 Q-Events, an event management company, and in 2016 Ladies Who Tech, a networking community for women in STEM.

Joy Lin started We & Equality in 2016 with research, simply asking people about their gender issue encounters in China.

She has found that many people lacked a decent understanding of sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

We & Equality now serves as a platform to educate and support people affected by these issues. Through her work, Lin has witnessed people’s understanding of gender roles and feminism grow.

The scale of Lin’s project might be small, but society changes in small steps, and regardless of size, the conversations she has started have already gotten government attention.

Natalie Chan wears many hats.

She is an advocate for women empowerment; an advisory board member for a registered charity called Xiersen in China; a financial planner; a strategic advisor; a mother; a wife; a business connector; a self-taught water colour painting artist; a keynote speaker…the list goes on!

Born in Hong Kong and spending much of her adult life in Australia, Natalie often sees things in life as either ‘Ying’ or ‘Yang’. Having worked professionally for 13 years in financial services in Australia, Natalie has found her core values as her niche, leaning on these elements to define and shape strategic solutions for her clients.

With two hands, she believes that one is for helping oneself; while the other is for helping others, regardless of race and gender.

Sarah Kchling is the Managing Principal of Blossom, a strategic insights, innovation and design consultancy that supports clients to get to breakthrough consumer, market and industry insights and collaboratively transform them into impact at all levels of their organizations.

With over 25 years of experience in China and Asia, including brand management roles at Procter & Gamble China and J&J International, leading innovation practices at agencies What If and Dragon Rouge and advising several China startups, Sarah is an experienced consultant who offers her clients an optimal balance of best-practice experience and entrepreneurial savvy.

Over the years she and her team have applied their considerable skills across a broad range of consumer and business to business categories for both Fortune 100 firms and local companies. She is an active member of AmCham Shanghai where she serves on the Board of Governors and is the co-chair of Women’s Executive Network (WEN).

PANEL DISCUSSION HOST

Host of the groundbreaking podcast, Unchained. Unbothered. Keturah Kendrick fancies herself the Ambassador of Freedom for the 21st century woman. She sees it as her mission to convince women across the globe that they are enough for themselves.

In addition to featuring globally-minded women who choose non-traditional paths on her show, she has written about the triumphs and challenges of living out loud while female on her own blog, Yet Another Single Gal, and for numerous publications such as Single Girls Rock, Non Parents, The Unfit Christian and The Not Mom.

She regularly writes for 网址未加载 and her first book, No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone, will be published in June.

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