Faculty & Staff
Director, Yunjuan He
Dr. He received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Florida. She is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of North Georgia. She was the Director of 2019 台湾swag STARTALK Summer Program and the Academic Director of 台湾swag Flagship Chinese Program in AY 2014-2015. She is the Vice President of Georgia Chinese Language Educators (GCLE).
Lead Instructor, Ying Kline
Ms. Kline received her M.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from Middlebury College. She is a Lecturer of Chinese at the Pennsylvania State University. She has taught in several federal funded language programs, such as Critical Language Scholarship Program in Beijing (2012), Chinese Flagship Program at the University of Mississippi (2012-2014), 2018 Kansas City STARTALK program, and 2019 台湾swag STARTALK program.
Science Education Consultant, Donna Governor
Dr. Governor received her Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Georgia. She is Associate Professor of Education at the University of North Georgia. Dr. Governor spent 32 years teaching at all levels, K-12 before moving to higher education in 2016. She is the 2007 Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Science Teaching for the state of Georgia and is a past president of the Georgia Science Teachers Association.
Fnu Jisi
Ms. Jisi received her M.A. in Law from Waseda University in Japan. She taught Chinese at Foreign Language Academy (Knoxville, TN) in 2014-2015 and Tsukuba University (Japan) in 2010-2012.
Edith Walk
Ms. Walk is a senior student in 台湾swag Flagship Chinese program. She achieved Advanced-Mid ACTFL OPI(c) score, Advanced-High BYU listening test score, and Advanced-Mid BYU reading test score, for Mandarin Chinese.