Board of Directors

Winnie Wong (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 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). 

Jingyi Yu (Vice President of Programs)
Ms. Yu, since joining in 2001, serves as the Evergreen Education Foundation Secretary and also manages the scholarship program. She received her B.S. in Biochemistry from Wuhan University, China; and M.S. in Biology from National University of Singapore. She has worked professionally at the University of California at San Francisco and Optiscan Medical Device Company. Ms. Yu was formerly a volunteer for the SOAR foundation for several years. 

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 has 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, University of California, Berkeley. She is responsible for EEF's library projects including information literacy and assessment. More information is available at: http://www.sjsu.edu/people/jobell.whitlatch/ .

Rodney Amen
Mr. Amen is a Senior Electrical Engineer with Alta Devices.  He has 30 years 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 BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Pacific in California . He co-founded the Village Children Fund, a non-profit organization, which built 3 elementary schools in Guizhou Province. Mr. Amen co-leads Evergreen Education Foundation's Science in the Library initiative.

Lili Luo
Dr. Lili Luo is an associate professor at the School of Information at San Jose State University. She received her Master's in Information Management from Peking University and PhD in Information and Library Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an active scholar and researcher in several Library and Information Science domains, including digital reference service, health information service, and research methods.

Jerry Xu
Jerry Xu is a VP of investment at Prudential Financial, 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. Jerry Xu obtained a Ph.D. degree in biophusics from Louisiana State University. Jerry himself received a scholarship name Evergreen in SOAR foundation when he was a student. He is also one of the earliest contributors and has continuously helped the growth of Evergreen Education Foundation including some of the rural health education programs in 2008-2010. Recently, Jerry is particularly interested in promoting the latest multimedia technology for STEM education.