Event Details

Event Description

Building Bridges is a Yale student organization that started in 2008 to involve college students in pooling education resources and capital to promote education equality and improve other social issues. Our summer project 2017 gathered 50 student volunteers to teach at Hongdong Shanxi on key issues like mental health, environmental health and sex education. We will share our summer project experience and gather people's feedback through our innovative design session.

Language

The language of the event will be Chinese.

Registration and Payment

Purchase in advance: RMB 20 for students; RMB 60 for Yale alumni; RMB 80 for others.
Purchase at the door: RMB 100.

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Agenda

18:30 - 19:00
Registration
19:00 - 20:00
Panal Discussion and Experince Sharing
20:00 - 20:40
Innovation Design Session

Speakers

  • Carol Li Rafferty (Managing Director of Yale Center Beijing, Co-Founder of Lean In China)

    Carol Li Rafferty

    Managing Director of Yale Center Beijing, Co-Founder of Lean In China

    Carol Li Rafferty is the inaugural managing director of Yale Center Beijing. Prior to this role, she was with China Investment Corporation and co-founded Lean In China, a 100,000-strong network of women across China. In 2016, the World Economic Forum named her a Young Global Leader. She received her B.A. from Yale University and J.D. from Stanford Law School.

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  • Yongkai Weng (President, AiXin Foundation)

    Yongkai Weng

    President, AiXin Foundation

    Dr. Yongkai Weng is the President of the AiXin Foundation. She graduated from Peking University in 1980 in China, and received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Temple University in the US. She worked with the US FDA after completed her post-doctoral training at the NCI,NIH. Dr. Weng founded the AiXin Foundation with a group of Chinese Americans in the US in 2002. She returned to China in 2006, and one of her roles is to serve as a liaison to facilitate cooperation between state institutions, international organizations, and local and community based NGOs.

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Tickets

Student Ticket
Standard Price RMB 20
Yale Alumni Ticket
Standard Price RMB 60
Standard Tickets
Standard Price RMB 80

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