Evergreen Educational Foundation
Board of Directors
Winnie Wong/黄颖妍 (President)
Dr. Wong holds a B.A. degree in Math from UC Berkeley, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Math from UCLA. She is an assistant professor in Mathematics at Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) in Belmont, CA. She is also an adjunct faculty member at De Anza College and Foothill College. She owns and actively runs a pre-collegial STEM academy that focuses on project based learning for middle and high school students. Previously, Dr. Wong held roles as a fixed-income quantitative analyst at American Century Investment. She also founded an after-school advanced-math preparation academy in San Diego which she actively ran for 7 years. Dr. Wong is an active advocate of life long learning and enjoys venturing out for new teaching experiences. In summer 2013, she was a Math lecturer at UC Berkeley. In summer 2015, she was a Math instructor at Stanford University for their EPGY (Education Program for Gifted Youth) middle school Math immerse program. Dr. Wong worked on curricula development and piloted the STATWAY pathway, set forth by the Carnegie Foundation, at Foothill College. She is an active member on the undergraduate curriculum committee at NDNU. Dr. Wong firmly believes in giving back to her alma maters, the community, and paying forward globally. She is a volunteer scholarship reader and interviewer for UC Berkeley and UCLA’s freshman and transfer classes, a reviewer for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME), and a member of the strategic committee at the Belmont Redwood Shore School District (BRSSD).
Jingyi Yu/余荊意 (Vice President)
From 2001 to 2019, Ms. Yu served as the Evergreen Education Foundation Secretary and also managed the scholarship program. In 2019, she became Vice-President of our foundation. She received her B.S. in Biochemistry from Wuhan University, China; and M.S. in Biology from National University of Singapore. She has worked professionally at the University of California at San Francisco and Optiscan Medical Device Company. Ms. Yu was formerly a volunteer for the SOAR foundation for several years. Ms. Yu is on the Evergreen Education Foundation’s Teacher Leader Committee.
Jo Bell Whitlatch (Secretary)
Dr. Whitlatch’s extensive library experience covers three academic libraries in many areas, including collection management, acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, reference, interlibrary loan, and library management. She has also has taught in the San Jose State University Graduate School of Library & Information Science and is a past president of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). 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. She has a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies and an M.A. in Asian Studies from, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Whitlatch is on the Evergreen Education Foundation’s Teacher Leader Committee.
Rodney Amen/謝哲光
Mr. Amen is a retired electrical engineer. He has 36 years of experience in Engineering and Management at several Silicon Valley companies including Amazon Lab126 working on Kindle devices and Apple designing laptop computers. While at Microsoft, he managed the electrical engineering team that developed the Xbox game console. Mr. Amen holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific in California. He co-founded the Village Children Fund, a non-profit organization, which built 3 elementary schools in Guizhou Province, China. Mr. Amen is on the Evergreen Education Foundation’s Advancement Committee.
Lili Luo
Dr. Lili Luo is a professor at the School of Information at San Jose State University. She received her Master’s in Information Management from Peking University and PhD in Information and Library Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an active scholar and researcher in several Library and Information Science domains, including digital reference service, health information service, and research methods. Dr. Luo is on the Evergreen Education Foundation’s Teacher Leader Committee.
Jerry Xu
Jerry Xu is a VP of investment at Prudential Financials, where he has been working in quantitative risk management and modeling for more than a decade. Before it, he worked in Harvard Medical School (MGH), focusing on research and modeling infrastructure. Jerry Xu obtained a Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Louisiana State University. Jerry Xu himself received a scholarship from the ShuHua Foundation (prior formation of EEF) when he was a student. He is also one of the earliest contributors to EEF and has continuously helped the growth of EEF, including some of the EEF rural health education programs in 2008-2010. Recently, Jerry Xu is particularly interested in promoting the latest multimedia technology for STEM education.
