Mary Field Email & Phone Number

Whenever I encounter something that I am excited about, I don’t think to myself, “how can I get a slice of this?” Instead, I want to figure out how to bake a bigger pie. In my career, this has taken many forms, from helping build up a small department in a larger consulting firm, to starting an organization from scratch. My roots are in southern New England and my professional start was in Asia, but I got to San Antonio as fast as I could.During my time in China, I saw a growth in the opportunities for language immersion education for Chinese children learning English. When I came back to the US, I wanted to create more of that here, but for American children to learn Mandarin Chinese. I started by working for a long-established program in Austin. After earning my master’s degree, I launched Lotus Chinese Learning as a solo-entrepreneur. After two years of steady growth, I teamed up with a partner to build the International School of San Antonio – the city’s most comprehensive language immersion program. Before the returning to the US, I was the marketing manager in Shanghai for a China-based consulting firm. The firm already had a strong content-marketing strategy and program. I worked on expanding the program to include our offices in the East China/ Yangtze River Delta region. I was in Shanghai during a boom in international interest in the country. In addition to increasing our marketing activities in the region, I was constantly supervising and mentoring a team of interns eager to gain a foothold in the China economy. Sometimes making a bigger pie means finding a great program and volunteering as an individual contributor, or sometimes a board member. I currently help deliver client services at the Center for Refugee Services and serve as a mentor in an equine-assisted learning program. I have also written for San Antonio Charter Moms, the San Antonio Report, Al Jazeera and Asia Briefing.