Faith Yao Yu Chao
Faith is a full professor of Mathematics at Golden Gate University She received her BS from Agnes Scott College, MS from Emory University and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto. Faith has been involved in Math education for a number of years, having published and presented 25 scholarly papers at international conferences, especially in the area of using Information Technology to enhance the teaching of Mathematics. She received the best teacher’s award in 2007 from Golden Gate University and was elected as its outstanding alumni by Agnes Scott College in 2008. Her interests in assisting rural China in building modern school libraries started 14 years ago when she helped with the rebuilding of an elementary school in northern Jiangsu. During the last seven years, Faith founded and served as the president of the Evergreen Education Foundation, whose mission is to help rural Chinese communities have access to library information resources through the development of modern high school libraries. Evergreen has assisted nearly forty libraries in rural China and won the 2004 Access to Learning Award given by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Eileen Tang ( Her Chinese name is Yu, Liqing ) is a licensed pharmacist in Taiwan. Before she moved to California in 1978, she is very much devoted to creative writing. Over the years, she has authored more than 40 books in Taiwan and China. Currently she lives in Berkeley after having retired from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in UC Berkeley. She is also a co-founder and actively involved in volunteering work as a bookkeeper for Evergreen Education Foundation for years.

Jo Bell Whitlatch has a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests and areas of special competence are: information seeking needs and behavior, user studies in libraries, evaluation of service organizations, and management of academic libraries. Publications include two books, The Role of the Academic Reference Librarian (1990), Evaluating Reference Services (2000), and articles in RQ, College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and the Reference Librarian.

Jingyi Yu(余荆意) is working in a medical device company as clinical data manager. She received her BS in Biochemistry from Wuhan University, P.R. China, MS in Biology from National University of Singapore. Jingyi volunteered in SOAR foundation for about 3 years. She joined Evergreen Education Foundation since 2001. 

John Lee
"John has held senior I.T. leasdership positions in biotechnology companies, international financial and banking companies, shipping logistics company and utility company. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has given UC Berkeley Extension course. His non-profit involvements have included, MentorNet.net, Red Cross, Soar Foundation and Peach Foundation."

Daniel Peng
Daniel Peng got his B.S, M.S. from Peking University, in 1988 and 1991, and PhD from UCLA in 1999. He was a lecturer at Tsinghua University from 1991-1994. From early 1999 to later 2000, he was senior financial software engineer at Barra Inc in Berkeley working on building equity and fixed incoming security models; From late 2000 to late 2002, he was project lead at Brience in San Francisco working on implementing efficient algorithm for searching, caching and management of distributed network systems. From late 2002 to present he has been working at Luminescent, a EDA start up, first as staff scientist, and then manager of core technology group and chief scientist. He was responsible for building the lithography models and the core inversed algorithm.