Research

Sherry is the head of International Desk and Senior Editor in The Initium. She worked as lecturer in Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison. Before that, she wrote political columns and commentaries for various newspapers, magazines, and TV/ radio programs. As an independent journalist, Sherry covered Iranian elections and international political issues for Hong Kong local outlets. She published her first book on Middle East Politics in 2014.

The founder of Experimentalista, a creative studio dedicated to transdisciplinary, emergent, experimental, and collaborative practices. The project advises the Vice Presidency of Colombia for the design of the National Care System – to reimagine the possibilities of AI for collaborative and dynamic governance models related to complex issues such as climate justice and care. She is also a Visiting Professor of Practice and Senior Policy Fellow at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, to explore AI’s transformative potential.

Qiu Chen, the consultant and the partner of Co-Wisdom Coach, a leading Chinese coaching center focus on coaching services in corporate environment. She has worked for diverse media platforms with different roles, ranging from new media director, podcaster, content creator, curriculum design developer, reporter and editor.

Dr. Evelyn Wan is an award-winning media and performance studies artist-scholar on AI, professional performer, dramaturg, and public speaker. Her research area also includes emerging technology and decolonial methodologies, with a research-based artistic practice. She is now Assistant Professor working in Media, Art, and Society, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University. Before that, she worked as Postdoctoral Researcher in Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University. With multiple roles as researcher, dramaturg and independent dance artist, Dr. Wan has conducted interdisciplinary and international profile; set up and led collaborative research, performance, and education projects with deliverable results.

Mr. Xing WEI founded the first independent fact-checking project in China, which has published around 1000 fact-checking reports that comply with IFCN standards and have received tens of millions of views on the Chinese Internet. Before this project, he was a founder of Sixth Tone, and a co-founder and deputy editor-in-chief in Pear Video Shanghai, the first short-form news video platform in Mainland, China. Mr. WEI also worked as senior editor in The Paper, Oriental Morning Post and Youth Daily.