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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Trace Foundation is pleased
to announce the launch of a Lecture Series Program with the first series
entitled<I> Minority Language in Today’s Global Society.</I> The lecture events
in the series will bring together speakers from diverse national and
disciplinary backgrounds to examine and share experiences on the selected topics
at hand, with a special comparative focus on Tibetan communities in
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/><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The first lecture event will
take place Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 at Trace Foundation and Latse
Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City>. A series publication will be
produced and distributed. </SPAN></P>
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form</SPAN></STRONG><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>here: <A
href="http://www.trace.org/pressroom_lecture_series_1.html">http://www.trace.org/pressroom_lecture_series_1.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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to us. You may also call us with your name, contact email, affiliation, and
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We look forward to hearing from you
and hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Minority
Language in Today’s Global Society<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">TRACE
FOUNDATION LECTURE SERIES<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Saturday
22 November 2008<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Trace
Foundation & Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural
Library<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><SPAN
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Perry Street</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN
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2B<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN
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York</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
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<st1:State w:st="on">NY</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">10014</st1:PostalCode></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">*Registration
requested.</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To register, please
download the <A
href="http://www.trace.org/downloads/FORM_Registration_LS01.pdf"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">registration form</SPAN></STRONG></A> and email or
fax it to us. You may also call us with your name, contact email, affiliation,
and mailing address.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">speakers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P>
<UL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type=square>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Peter
K. Austin, </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Director
and Professor, Endangered Languages Academic Program, School of Oriental and
African Studies<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Pema
Bhum, </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Director,
Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library<o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Fernand
de Varennes, </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Acting
Dean and Associate Professor, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Murdoch</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Jia
Luo, </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Visiting
Scholar, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Manlha
Kyi, </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">Faculty
of Education, University of <st1:place w:st="on">Hong
Kong</st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -1in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">schedule
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">9:00-10:00
a.m. <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Check-in/breakfast<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">10:00
a.m.-12:15 p.m. <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Morning session<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">12:15-1:00
p.m. <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 2">
</SPAN>Lunch (on your own)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">1:15-5:30
p.m. <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 3">
</SPAN>Afternoon session<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN">5:30-7:00
p.m. <SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 3">
</SPAN>Reception<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -1in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">speaker
bios<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Peter K. Austin,
</SPAN></B></EM><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Director and
Professor, Endangered Languages Academic Program, School of Oriental and African
Studies<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Peter K. Austin research interests
cover descriptive, theoretical and applied linguistics. He has extensive
fieldwork experience on Australian Aboriginal languages (northern <st1:State
w:st="on">New South Wales</st1:State>, northern <st1:State w:st="on">South
Australia</st1:State>, and north-west <st1:State w:st="on">Western
Australia</st1:State>) and has co-authored an internet-based bilingual
dictionary of Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi), northern <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New South Wales</st1:place></st1:State>, as well as seven published
bilingual dictionaries of Aboriginal languages. Since 1995 he has been carrying
out research on Sasak and Samawa (or Sumbawan), Austronesian languages spoken on
Lombok and Sumbawa islands, eastern <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. His most recent book is <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">1000 Languages: The Worldwide History of
Living and Lost Tongues, </I>which explores the state of languages around the
world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></EM></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pema Bhum, </SPAN></B></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Director, Latse Contemporary Tibetan
Cultural Library<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Pema
Bhum is a highly respected figure in the world of Tibetan literature. He holds
an M.A. in Tibetan Literature and Language from <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Northwest</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Nationalities</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Lanzhou</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Gansu</st1:State></st1:place>
Province, P.R.China, where he also taught as an associate professor of Tibetan
literature from 1983 to 1988. He was a visiting assistant professor of Tibetan
language at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Indiana</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> from 1994 to 1997. He
co-founded the Amnye Machen Institute, the newspaper </SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dmangs gtso</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(Democracy),</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
and the literary magazine </SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ljang gzhon
(Jangshon).</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
His memoirs of the Cultural Revolution have been translated under the title
</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Six Stars with
a Crooked Neck</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
in 2001, with a recent sequel </SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dran tho rdo ring ma (Stone Pillar
Memoirs)</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
in 2007</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">.</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></EM></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></EM></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Fernand de
Varennes</SPAN></B></EM><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Acting Dean and Associate Professor,
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Murdoch</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN class=style40><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Fernand de Varennes is recognised as
one of the world's leading legal experts on language rights and has written two
seminal works on this topic: <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Language,
Minorities and Human Rights</I> (1996) and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A Guide to the Rights of Minorities and
Language </I>(2001). A laureate of the 2004 Linguapax Award and the
prestigious Tip O'Neill Peace Fellowship at INCORE (Initiative on Conflict
Resolution and Ethnicity) in Derry, Northern Ireland, </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr. de Varennes has worked with
numerous international organisations such as the United Nations' Working Group
on the Rights of Minorities, UNESCO and the OSCE's High Commissioner on National
Minorities on issues in international law, human rights, minorities and ethnic
conflicts.<EM><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Jia Luo</SPAN></B></EM><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">,</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Visiting Scholar, Sociology and
Equity Studies in Education, University of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Toronto</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Jia Luo is an experienced educator
and researcher of Tibetan language issues in education in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. He taught
for over a decade as an assistant professor in the Department of Tibetan
Language and Culture at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Northwest</SPAN></EM></st1:PlaceName><EM><SPAN
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<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Nationalities</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Lanzhou</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Gansu</st1:State></st1:place>
Province, P.R.China. His research interests cover Tibetan cultural development,
minority language and culture in education, cultural dilemmas in modernization,
indigenous knowledge in education, and more. His publications include several
books on Tibetan language and cultural development in education and a chapter in
the forthcoming </SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Global Issues
in Education: A Reader.</SPAN></EM><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Faculty of Education, University of
<st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Manlha Kyi brings with her
experience in teaching, research, and development work. Her research interests
include language policy, language and minority rights, and multiculturalism in
education. In the 1990s, she served as an English teacher and administrator at
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Qinghai</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Nationalities</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Xining</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Qinghai</st1:State></st1:place> Province, P.R.China. She has also
worked as a program officer in education projects for a non-government
organization in Tibetan areas of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. She holds a Master of
Education from Teachers College, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Columbia</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>, and is currently pursuing a doctorate at
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hong
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