Dr. Grace Cheng Dodge recently retired as Head of School of Taipei American School, Taipei, Taiwan. She is also a former Director of Admission at Wellesley College. Prior to joining Wellesley in 2015, she was an Associate Director of Admissions at Harvard in charge of training all admissions officers to assess applications. From 2009-2012, she took a professional leave from Harvard and spent three years at Taipei American School as a college counselor and Director of College Counseling. Grace returned to the TAS College Counseling office in 2018 before assuming the position of Deputy Head of School in the 2019-20 academic year. Dr. Dodge served as Interim Head of School during SY 2020-2021 before her selection as the 15th Head of Taipei American School. 

While at Wellesley, Grace spent three years as a US Department of State Office of Overseas Schools/College Board Overseas Schools Project traveler to western Europe. In this capacity, she traveled to various international and American schools, presenting to lower, middle, and upper school communities of expatriate children and parents on developing the whole child and mastering the building blocks to being a successful student in an American school system.

Grace has presented worldwide on admissions-related subjects at EARCOS, NACAC (National Association of College Admission Counseling), IACAC (International Association of College Admission Counseling), and College Board Forums. She was Chair-Elect of the New England College Board Regional Council before relocating to Taiwan and has over 14 years of experience training high school counselors at the Harvard Summer Institute for College Admissions co-sponsored by the College Board. 

Grace is a graduate of Harvard University with a cum laude degree in applied mathematics. She holds an MS in accounting, MBA, and EdD from Northeastern University. She is certified as a PreK-12 administrator in the District of Columbia, and prior to entering the field of education, she was employed by PwC LLP as an auditor of independent schools, and she remains a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.