Joanne Liu (she/her)

Co-Founder & CEO | Chinese American

Joanne is a life-long educator — it’s something she wanted to be as a kid growing up in Boston, MA. This dream motivated her as a first-generation college student studying education.

She began her career as a middle school Special Education (SPED) teacher through Teach For America. Since then, she’s spent years as a high school SPED teacher, a middle school Assistant Principal, a Director of Operations for Turing School of Software & Design, and a Program Coordinator at CU Boulder’s McNair Scholars Program. She is an alumna of the Moonshot edVentures Fellowship. She has a BA in English & American Literature and Secondary Education and a MS in Organizational Leadership from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Outside of education, she serves on the Board of Directors of Colorado Asian Pacific United and founded the Mile High Asian Food Week. She enjoys Asian food, BTS, Korean dramas, and spending time with her husband and two kids.

Joanne’s favorite way of celebrating her Chinese heritage is by lion dancing. To her, it represents culture and empowerment.