Board of Directors

Evergreen Educational Foundation

Board of Directors

Our leaders represent a wide spectrum of experience and qualifications. The team has expertise in education, library science, finance, accounting, engineering, and Asian history and culture.

Dr. 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).

Dr. 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 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.

Mr. 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 B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific in California. He completed ChinaX, an 18-month study of Chinese History with Harvard University. Mr. Amen co-founded the Village Children Fund, a non-profit organization, which built 3 elementary schools in Guizhou Province, China.

Dr. Jerry Xu 许彦龙

Dr. 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. Dr. Jerry Xu obtained a Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Louisiana State University. He received a scholarship from the ShuHua Foundation (prior formation of EEF) when he was a student. Dr. Xu 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, Dr. Xu is particularly interested in promoting the latest multimedia technology for STEM education.

Ms. Susan Wong

Ms. Wong has over 25 years of experience in accounting, auditing, and taxation. She was a EEF founding member and was the treasurer/CFO until 2001. Ms. Wong has worked in both public accounting and private industry sectors. She started her career in the private industry as an accountant and gained auditing and tax experience in two Big 4 accounting firms and a couple local CPA firms. Prior to joining Wong Associates, Ms. Wong was a Manager in the International Tax Group of Deloitte Tax, LLP. She has extensive tax compliance, tax accounting, and consulting experience serving high-net-worth individuals, multinational fortune 500 companies in the hi-tech, real estate, venture capital, private equity, biotech, pharmaceutical, and consumer business industries. Her experience includes international tax planning, advising individuals and multinational companies on their inbound and outbound investments, IPO, merger and acquisition, and corporate restructuring transactions. Ms. Wong has a B.S. in Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. in Taxation, Golden Gate University. She is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin and a member of the American Institute of CPAsand the California Society of CPAs.

Ms. Yu Zhang

Ms. Yu Zhang entered educational non-profit full-time in 2008 and devoted herself to developing library services of secondary schools in underdeveloped areas and the cultivation of students’ research literacy. Since 2017, she has focused on promoting secondary school students to explore local history and culture through oral history, meanwhile advancing their research capability and gaining life lessons. She believes in the importance of “being the witnesses and researchers of our own life histories,” and thus is committed to the application of oral history methods in a broader sense of education and public welfare. Before entering the non-profit sector, she worked in the computer industry for ten years and received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua University and a master’s degree in computer science from Cornell University

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