Projects
Projects are where I try ideas before they have a name. Some grew into communities, some into archives, and some are still becoming what they’ll be. This page collects the work I’ve built outside of a job description: things I started because I wanted them to exist, and the people who showed up for them.
Orbis
Rebuilding English learning around the lives of visually impaired students.
Orbis started with a group of friends from Shanghai American School who wanted our service to reach further. Working with Orbis International, we co-founded a service branch to expand English-language access for visually impaired students, and I helped shape it from the start. The local English curriculum we saw was neither applicable to students’ lives nor sensitive to their experience, so we built our own around conversational English. We ran bimonthly events and holiday celebrations based on those lessons, and I designed more than 90 tailored lessons over the program’s run.
When COVID moved everything online, I treated the obstacle as a reason to rethink access. With sponsorship from Tencent, we paired students from international schools with visually impaired students for weekly online English lessons, and we recorded lessons as audiobooks so students could keep learning on their own time.
Building Orbis taught me that good design means adapting the material to the learner, not expecting the learner to adapt to it.
Skills: Curriculum design · Program development · Sponsor coordination · Nonprofit leadership
Results: 90+ tailored English lessons designed and an online teaching model developed
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Sculpting Visions
Art doesn’t need sight to be felt.
With art being my passion, I wanted to close the gap between two ideas that seem to contradict each other, not being able to see and the visual arts.
Working with the Pearl Art Museum of Shanghai, I brought students from Shanghai Blind School together for an audio museum tour and a tactile clay experience. The tour let them engage with the works through description and sound, and the clay session let them respond to art with their hands. I came into this believing art is something everyone should be able to enjoy, and I wanted the event to prove it could be designed that way from the start.
Skills: Event planning · Museum partnerships · Accessible programming · Community outreach
Results: 20 visually students participated, 40 volunteers, and the event was developed into a replicable format
A town that once traded along the river, now preserving its own story.
Daxi is a small township in Taoyuan, Taiwan, that grew from a trading hub along the Dahan River into a community defined as much by its people as its past. My sister and I started the Daxi Living Archive to document that shift in a bilingual website. It brings together the town’s history, photography, and documentaries, and it invites residents and visitors to share their own memories and stories. We wanted the archive to feel alive rather than static, so the community can add to it over time instead of only reading about it.
Skills: Digital archiving · Bilingual content · Documentary and photo curation · Community storytelling
Results: Launch party with 50+ participants and coverage from 5 local press outlets
