Happily Ever After?

From school admissions to AI education and youth projects, Rebecca explores how children can build agency by solving real problems. Raising a college-age son and two young children has also led her to rethink expectations, independent judgment, and how parents can step back while staying present.

The more advanced the virtual world becomes, the more precious reality is.

At 16, a scholarship took him to Millfield School in the UK, planting the seeds of a lifelong connection to education and generosity. After studying electronic and information engineering at Cambridge and trading derivatives at UBS, volunteering after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake led him into education. He co-founded 17zuoye and helped bring it to Nasdaq. Today, he explores how AI can make personalized learning possible.

Education is not about filling a vessel, but lighting a fire. Its deepest driving force is not efficiency or grades, but love.

Founder of Solvely AI and founder of Blue Oak Education (蓝橡树教育). His research focuses in depth on how AI can empower individuals, and how and what people should learn as AI becomes widely accessible.

An education entrepreneur and coach for young people and families, Zijin has spent more than 3,000 hours in coaching conversations and supported over 80 families through adolescence. She has traveled to more than 30 countries across six continents, independently visited 40 schools and social organizations in 20 countries, and published the English interview collection Stories of Hope. From family coaching to AI-powered schools, she explores how to awaken motivation and help young people understand themselves and find their own paths.

Previously an aide to a San Francisco city supervisor, a communications adviser to entrepreneurs, and host of Shao Heng Headlines, a Dedao podcast with a million listeners. Before turning 30, she ran tirelessly on the wheel of career achievement; after 30, she moved to California to explore a balance between family life and personal accomplishment. Through positive psychology, translation, and storytelling, she continues to explore what it means to live a meaningful, good life.

With more than a decade in innovative education, Lucy is Director of Instruction at Handshake AI, exploring how people learn and grow in the age of AI. She and her partner are raising triplet daughters in a cross-cultural family and have built a co-living community with friends. She believes that relationships, like education, invite us to explore inward and grow outward.

Good education lets every flower bloom at its own pace.

A former television reporter and presenter, Shayna focuses on cross-cultural storytelling, personal growth, and family awareness. She brings together coaching, healing through stories, and Eastern and Western perspectives to help overseas Chinese communities explore identity, relationships, and meaning. Since becoming a mother, she has studied the psychology of matrescence and woven her own experience into work that supports women through identity transitions.

A psychology PhD, registered supervisor with the Chinese Psychological Society, IAAP Jungian analyst, CSST sandplay therapist, and DCAP hypnotherapist. She formerly directed the Psychological Counseling Research Center at South China Normal University and conducted research at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Now based in San Francisco, she focuses on psychoanalysis, sandplay, dream work, and mental health education for Chinese families.

Relationships are a mirror that helps us see ourselves clearly. I am grateful to my partner for holding that mirror so faithfully.