Asia 21 Next Generation fellows evaluate progress in closing the gender gap and advancing women's rights, highlighting successful strategies to accelerate gender parity.

The celebration features an awards ceremony recognizing the honorees, a keynote conversation, and a dance performance.

Yu-Lan Lin, Baocai Jia, Carol Chen-Lin, and Lucy Chu Lee present techniques that encourage students to think more deeply, even at the introductory level.

Veteran field leaders share their career stories to help participants reignite their passion for teaching and reinvigorate their careers. 

Chris Livaccari, Tim Shaw, Zhongqi Shi, and Wenjing Xie discuss practical strategies for sustaining the Chinese language field with Shuhan Wang.

The Yale University Professor discusses the profound impact of the Chinese language's evolution and modernization within China and on the international stage with Andy Browne.

Richard Brecht, Anthony Jackson, Verónica Boix-Mansilla, and Akash Patel speak to Neelam Chowdhary about building a future for equitable language programs.

Hope Lim reads from her book about memories and new places while Il Sung Na demonstrates how he draws a tree.

Neelam Chowdhary talks to Aram Kim, Hope Lim, and Andrea Wang about the importance of publishing Asian American stories.

Andrea Wang reads from her book about a perennial herb that brought a girl closer to her heritage while Jason Chin shows his artistic process for illustrating the images in the book.

A group of educators talks about the benefits of working with local Chinese communities.

Chinese language students talk about their motivations, challenges, and opportunities.

A panel of Chinese language teachers and education leaders talk about ways to overcome a teacher shortage.

A group of educators shares insight into managing multicultural classroom dynamics in order to support students' learning and social inclusion.

Parents speak up about the rewards and challenges of putting their children in Chinese language education.

Neelam Chowdhary speaks with Homa Tavangar about developing skill sets while learning a foreign language.

A group of educators talks about the pros and cons of starting the children young with Chinese language education.

Stacey Roshan talks about being a technologically savvy teacher.