The Team

Director
Hong Wolfe
Hong Wolfe is involved in business and education, and strives to provide quality services to local communities.  Educated in the physical sciences, Hong has a MS in Chemistry from San Francisco State University and a PhD in Biophysics from Stanford University.  She has worked as a professor and a research scientist, and is currently enjoying being a mother and a real estate broker with Town & Country Realty in Corvallis, Oregon.


Treasurer

                            Guobiao Zhang
                             

      

Teacher

Luh Jang Chen
Academically trained and practiced professionally as an educator, artist, and designer; Luh Jang has combined arts, crafts, and computer multimedia technique into a friendly and effective teaching practice.  Luh Jang is a graduate of National Taiwan Normal University, one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan and the only university which provides a complete 4 year teaching and instructional focused curriculum.  Before opening her own Corvallis-based language and art teaching studio in 2004 Luh Jang was the Chinese Language Art teacher at Ashbrook Independence School for 6 years.  Luh Jang also served as the Principal of Corvallis Chinese School from 2004 to 2007 and has been the senior teacher since 1994.  Luh Jang is currently the Executive Director of Northwest Association of Chinese Language Schools (branch of NCACLS) and the President’s Scholar in language education (Taiwan).  



Program Coordinator (Volunteer)

Yuanfang Zhou

Majored in education, Yuanfang Zhou has a master degree in curriculum and teaching methods of Chinese literature and language. She was a teacher in Chinese literature in an elementary school before becoming the executive assistant in a publishing company. She volunteered as a Chinese language teacher in Willamette Chinese School after moving to Corvallis in 2009.

Email: huayiacademy2010+zhou@gmail.com
 



Teacher
Gelan Cai

In 1987, Gelan Cai received B.A. in Chinese Linguistics and Literature from East China Normal University in Shanghai, P.R. China. She taught Chinese in Huilong Middle School before moving to the Corvallis, Oregon, then she taught nine years of Chinese in Willamette Chinese School. Currently, this is her fifth year as a K-8th Chinese teacher in Ashbrook Independent School. Gelan believes that with enough love, care, creativity, and responsibility, teaching can be a very rewarding job. 



Teacher
       Yea-Ching Wu
      Yea-Ching Wu has been teaching Chinese as a second language for more than ten years at Corvallis Chinese School.



Teacher

Hong Xia

Majored in education,  Hong Xia spent years in teaching Chinese and mathematics in the elementary school in China before she moved to Britain,  where she taught Chinese in MingKah Chinese School and worked as a volunteer in a disabled children's center. She continued her Chinese teaching in Singapore, then came to Corvallis in 2002. Holding that good attitude makes huge difference in children's learning, Hong has been teaching Chinese in Willamette Chinese School before joining us.



Teacher

Tzuhua (Mimi)Chen

Mimi came from Taiwan with well-versed techniques of Chinese dance as well as ballet, Jazz and Modern. She graduated from University of Arizona with a BFA and MFA in dance, fine Arts. She received the Creative Achievement Award from the school of fine arts and recognized as an Outstanding Student Award and won the first place award in student showcase at University of Arizona. She is "Special Mention Choreography Winner 2001", at Arizona Choreography Completion. She also received  The Greatest Visual Choreography, the Judges Award, from the Starbound National Talent Competition and National Talent competition & Encore performance Arts Showcase, Inc. Mimi has been focusing on the integration of Oriental philosophy and traditional dance with Western dance techniques. She supports the philosophy of incorporating the artistic traditions around world into Modern art for it to remain viable and alive.  Mimi's choreography and teaching experience includes: University of Arizona,Orts dance theater in Tucson, AZ, cooperation with Creative Dance Arts, After school program in Pima Arts Council, high school program in TUSD and MUSD (Tucson, AZ.). Now she lives in Corvallis as a community dance artist. She is also the artist director for East West Dance Creation and working with Chinese dance groups.



Teacher

Qian Lv (Volunteer)


Teacher

Zusen Ye (Volunteer)