CREATIVE educator, entrepreneur, filmmaker, publisher, professor of education. Always working to translate research into impactful culture for a world more open to each other’s stories and languages.ENTREPRENEURSHIP.• Founder, Yumcha Studios — using the power of great stories, proprietary characters and mobile technology for bilingual learning. Granted patent for "Multimodal Learning Platform". Won at Singapore Creator Awards. Won at the Singapore Ministry of Education Student Learning System (SLS) on SLS Pitch Day. EduSpaze Accelerator Programme (Singapore), GIA Plug and Play Accelerator Programme (Indonesia).CULTURE.• Festival Director, Kampung Halloween, 2024• Creator of Dim Sum Warriors, bilingual comic series and app• Producer and writer, Dim Sum Warriors the Musical that played in 26 cities in China to over 40,000 audiences in collaboration with Chinese theater legend Stan Lai, Pulitzer prize-winner, Du Yun, and Mei Ann Teo, Director of New Work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.• Produced, wrote, directed “Singapore Dreaming”, the feature film that won the Montblanc New Screenwriters Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and the Best Asian/Middle Eastern Film Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Licensed by Netflix and HBO, and Singapore Airlines.• Co-founded TalkingCock.com, the hugely popular satirical website in Singapore together with Colin Goh. TalkingCock.com garnered 4 million page views a month, and was featured by Time Magazine, Wired, The Economist, the BBC, and was even debated in Singapore’s parliament. • Co-edited The Coxford Singlish Dictionary, a bestselling lexicon of Singaporean vernacular English that the Times of London pronounced “invaluable”. RESEARCH AND TEACHING.• Programme Leader, MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice, School of Creative Industries, Lasalle College of the Arts, University of the Arts, Singapore.• Visiting Professor at National Central University (Taiwan). Focus: storytelling, new publishing, creative media lab.• Associate Prof of Education at Long Island University (New York). Focus:curriculum development, social foundations of education, research methods.• Doctor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. Awarded the Spencer Foundation Research Fellowship.• Published in Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice; Education Researcher; Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship; Teachers College Record; Asia-Pacific Journal of Education; Journal of Media Literacy Education.