Co-hosted by The Homeward Bound Project, Yale Club of Beijing, and Yale Center Beijing

Event Time

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Registration
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Presentation
3:00 pm - 3:40 pm

Panel Discussion + Q&A
3:40 pm - 4:30 pm

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C) 

Registration

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Ticket: Free for Yale alumni; RMB 30 for regular admission. 

*The registration fee for the event is non-refundable. Unless due to a force majeure reason, Yale Center Beijing will not refund any part of the registration fee if a participant fails to attend the event.

The language of the event will be Chinese. 

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

Note: Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

The Event

The Homeward Bound Project stands as the world's most extensive leadership initiative for women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine). It is designed to empower these women by significantly enhancing their visibility, confidence, shared vision, and strategic capabilities. This empowerment is intended to increase their potential to assume leadership positions on a global scale and to actively contribute to a sustainable future, both as individuals and as a collective force.

Established in 2016 by four visionary Australian women—leadership expert Fabian Dattner, Antarctic researcher Dr. Justine Shaw, polar marine scientist Dr. Mary-Anne Lea, and marine ecologist Dr. Jess Melbourne-Thomas—the Homeward Bound Project has set an ambitious goal of creating a global network of 10,000 women with STEMM expertise by 2036. This network will be characterized by its members' visibility, collaboration, networking, and impact on decision-making across various sectors for the common good. To date, the project has engaged over 700 women scientists from around the globe, including nearly 30 from China.

These remarkable women have embarked on a remarkable journey, choosing to dedicate themselves to the noble cause of environmental protection. What transformative experiences have they encountered on their path to "returning home," a journey that culminates in Antarctica? How have the female scientists involved in the project been changed by their experiences?

On the afternoon of September 22, we invite you to Yale Center Beijing to meet six Chinese women who have completed their Antarctic expedition. They will share their inspiring stories of Antarctica, nature, ecology, leadership, and personal growth, offering insights into their transformative journey. Speakers will also be signing books they have authored.

Speakers

Binbin Wang
Yale World Fellow 2023 Member, The 3rd Cohort of Homeward Bound
Binbin Wang is a well-respected climate actionist and social scientist in China and was selected as Yale World Fellow in 2023. As a stubborn optimist, Binbin Wang has tracked the UNFCCC process since 2009. Her monograph about China’s green transition was published by Springer Nature and nominated for Springer’s China New Development Awards in 2022. As a well-known influencer and super connecter, she is now accelerating bottom-up action and joint efforts from China to the world for the global net-zero transition.

Zhiyao Lu PhD ’14 
Member, The 3rd Cohort of Homeward Bound
Zhiyao Lu is the Program Director of SEE Foundation. She leads the Climate Change and Business Sustainability team to promote projects like the green supply chain action, energy transition in rural China, corporate carbon neutrality initiatives, and waste management, with an aim to bring together the best of businesses and NGOs to reduce pollution and carbon emissions and to improve the environment. Zhiyao Lu received her PhD in Ethnoecology from a joint-doctoral program with Minzu University of China and Yale University. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University and New York Botanical Garden, and received her B.S. from Ocean University of China. She is also a co-author of the book The Selves We Choose, the chief editor of Carbon Neutral Action - Environmental Philanthropy for Climate Governances, and a TEDx speaker.

Charlene Ren
Member, The 2nd Cohort of Homeward Bound
Charlene Ren is a social entrepreneur and long-time environmental advocate. She’s currently working as a business strategy consultant in an international company, mainly serving consumer industries and NGOs. She graduated from MIT with dual masters in Environmental Engineering and Technology & Policy. In 2015, she founded MyH2O, a nonprofit organization that connects resources for clean water solutions to rural areas in need. MyH2O has mobilized thousands of youths to raise water and sanitation awareness across rural China, and has delivered clean water facilities and solutions to hundreds of villages so far. Her work earned her the 2020 UN Young Champion of the Earth award. She was also an Echoing Green Fellow in 2016, Homeward Bound Antarctica Female leadership journey member, and one of Forbes "30 Under 30" Social Entrepreneurs in 2019.

Jing Hu
Member, The 4th Cohort of Homeward Bound
Jing Hu is a material scientist and a senior engineer. She holds a DPhil from the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford and was a postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. Jing Hu has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship at the University of Oxford, the Second Prize at the first China Science and Technology Youth Forum held by the China Association for Science and Technology and was named to the Forbes China 30 Under 30 list in the energy and environmental protection field. She received the Phoenix Net Women's Impact Award for public welfare contributions.

Yanhui Wang
Member, The 5th Cohort of Homeward Bound
Yanhui Wang, Deputy Executive Director of Operation and Organizational Development at the Institute for Global Decarbonization Progress, has over 20 years of experience in communications and nonprofit organization management. She has worked for many well-known media, non-profit, and research foundations and institutions. She previously worked as a public information and cooperation development consultant for UNESCO. Yanhui Wang graduated from Renmin University of China with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and the University of Stirling with a master’s degree in Media Management. She is a Chevening Scholar.

Ming Yin
Member, The 5th Cohort of Homeward Bound
Ming Yin focuses on the industrialization of technology, dedicated to transforming scientific concepts into real products that can be applied to people's daily lives. With over 20 years of rich experience in scientific research, product commercialization, business development, and company operations, she has made significant contributions to her field. After obtaining her PhD in life sciences, she received the UK government’s Chevening Scholarship to conduct research on technology commercialization at the University of Cambridge and the University of Warwick. Ming Yin previously served as the project manager for the Grand Challenges in Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she with her colleagues developed humanized animal models for the research of major diseases in developing countries. Currently, she operates a biotechnology company with her partners, focusing on providing comprehensive solutions for precision medicine to facilitate new drug development and clinical translation.