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Yale-China Fellow Alumni Profiles

Chris Young Yali High School 2009-2011, Law Clerk to the Honorable Lance M. Africk, U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Originally published August 2017 Where do you currently work and what does your job entail? I am currently serving as a law clerk to Judge Lance Africk on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. I have a broad range of duties covering both civil and criminal matters, including conducting legal research, preparing memos on various legal topics, drafting orders and opinions, communicating with counsel regarding case management, and procedural requirements and assisting Judge Africk during court proceedings. Did you consider graduate school over the Fellowship? If so, why did you choose the Fellowship? I did not consider graduate or professional programs at the time I was considering the Yale-China Fellowship. I knew that the Fellowship was what I wanted to do. It was only during the Fellowship
Yale-China AssociationAugust 22, 2019
Ming Thompson Principal and Founder of Atelier Cho Thompson Yali High School, 2004-2006 Originally published August 2017 Where do you currently work and what does your job entail? I work at Atelier Cho Thompson, a design and concept firm I founded with a partner. We work between architecture, interior design, graphic design, and strategy. Did you consider graduate school over the Fellowship? If so, why did you choose the Fellowship? I always planned to take a couple years off from design before attending architecture school. This time helped me clarify what I wanted in a graduate program. I also knew that once I went to grad school, I would work in architecture so this was an opportunity to do something completely different in a new part of the world! During my time in the Fellowship, I put together my portfolio and application, and I started at the Harvard Graduate School of Design when I returned to the U.S. I lived in a house in Cambridge with two other returning Fell
Yale-China AssociationAugust 21, 2019
Minh Tran Senior Director of Research and Academic Partnerships at Education First Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011-2013 Originally published in August 2017 Where do you currently work and what does your job entail? I currently work at EF Education First, one of the world’s largest private education companies, where I manage our EF English Proficiency Index research series, which measures the English levels of 80 countries and examines the effects of countries’language policies and investments on language proficiency and economic competitiveness. I was also part of the team that launched the EF Standard English Test (EF SET), the world’s first free standardized English test, and I spend a lot of time on the road—23 countries and counting—to promote the EF SET and speak about research and innovation at EF. Finally, I have the privilege of overseeing EF’s partnerships with ministries of education and universities around the world for large-scale language assessment and re
Yale-China AssociationAugust 21, 2019
 

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