Jia joined CTEF in May 2017. She is a new immigrant from Beijing and comes to Seattle several times every year. Jia will help to set up the CTEF Beijing office and coordinate the projects in China.

Xin has been working in the financial industry since 2000. As a child, she was influenced by her father's dedication to helping underprivileged college students at the college where he taught. Even though the family was in debt, he donated all his best teacher rewards to qualified students. Xin joined CTEF in 2008.

Gia graduated from the Business School of George Washington University, and worked as a professional CPA for a few years. After she moved from New York to Seattle in 2009, she decided to apply her passion to a real estate career. Gia became interested in CTEF after the annual dinner in 2015, and she is active in community service and dedicated to helping disadvantaged children in her home country.

Mindy He was a teacher at a teacher school in Beijing. As a teacher, Mindy believes that education can change the future of anyone. After learning about CTEF through a friend, she became a member of CTEF and committed herself to helping underprivileged students in China. She is now in charge of the 1+1 program.

Mengke works as a software engineer at Microsoft and develops products and services as part of Microsoft's Office 365 solutions. She joined CTEF in 2012 and has been serving as a board member since 2013. Her passion is helping the  students and oversees various school projects. Starting in March 2017, Mengke started to help with the treasurer duties for CTEF. Mengke received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prior to that she graduated from HuaZhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan city.

Waisiu was born and raised in Hong Kong. He co-founded CTEF in 2000 with Dennis Su. He was an analog IC design engineer in the US for 20+ years. He returned to China in 2004 and is now in charge of a mixed signal IC design house in Hangzhou.

Cecelia works as a principal data science manager at Microsoft and has been working in finance and tech industries for over 10 years. She witnessed that children in one rural area of China fought for living and couldn’t afford school, when she was young taken by her father to help there. After that she has been dedicated to supporting the lives of impoverished children in China with donations for years. In 2022, she decided to join CTEF for volunteering her time in various programs and directly making a real difference in young children from China in need, inspired by Microsoft GIVE campaign and CTEF mission. 

Vickie was born and raised in Hebei, China and is now a Boston based software engineer. Inspired by the mission that CTEF is committed to, she became a supporter of CTEF in 2022, and then a volunteer who maintains the social media platforms of CTEF. Vickie is passionate about helping underprivileged students in China and she believes that every kid can make a difference with the opportunity of quality education. Vickie received her Master's degree in Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that she graduated from Tianjin University in China.

Qingyue has always held great passion for helping children in education. She believes the best education should nurture responsibility and curiosity.

Peng Zhang joined CTEF at the beginning of 2012, starting as a volunteer. He enjoyed that CTEF was helping children in rural areas of China. Now Peng is CTEF’s general secretary, responsible for PR with China and cooperation with sister organizations.