Bertrand D Hsu
American & Chinese
Bicultural Academy
徐大宏美中双文化学校
Leadership Team
Ann Hsu
Founder, Head of School
Ann is the daughter of Bertrand D Hsu. Similar to her father, Ann is an immigrant Chinese American who has lived and worked in both the US and China. A 25-year professional and entrepreneur in the technology and consumer products industries, Ann co-founded and led her own companies in both Silicon Valley and China for over 18 years.
Ann holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MS in Electrical Engineering and MBA from UC Berkeley.
Ann served as Chair of San Francisco Unified School District's Independent Citizens Bond Oversight Committee, President of her sons' Galileo High School PTSA, and was appointed by the San Francisco Mayor to serve on the SFUSD Board of Education.
Quincy Yu
COO & CFO
Quincy is a 45-year professional and entrepreneur. After working at multiple large multi-national corporations, Quincy was recruited and served as CFO, COO and CEO of four startup companies.
Quincy holds a BS in Organizational Behavior and Marketing from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University.
Quincy is the Chair of the SFUSD Independent Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee, a Board Member of the Lowell Alumni Association and former Vice Chair for Urban Services YMCA Community Action Agency. She is also a SCORE volunteer who frequently presents financial management workshops for small businesses and a former CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) for foster youth.
Our Teachers
Our team includes full-time core teachers for English, math, and Chinese, as well as expert adjunct instructors in subjects like music, gardening, and art. On field trips, we learn from city guides, docents, and community leaders. Learning can happen anywhere—and our students know it.
Matt Allen
Teacher & Director of School
Mr. Allen is a 4th generation San Franciscan and a product of SFUSD. He graduated from Lowell High School and UC Santa Barbara. He spent seven years in China, teaching and working as a journalist and then started the first cross-fit gym in western China. Upon returning to San Francisco, Matt became a teacher and taught and coached (basketball and baseball) at Galileo High School for seven years before joining BHA.
Mr. Allen teaches English to Upper Cohort students at BHA as well as directs campus activities for all students.
Kathy Meng
Mandarin Chinese & Math Teacher
Ms. Meng is originally from China and has been teaching Mandarin Chinese in the United States for fifteen years. She has designed curricula to engage diverse learners from beginners to those preparing to take the AP Chinese Language and Culture test.
Ms. Meng also teaches Chinese philosophy, the Four Classics as well as K-2 Math and uses stories to engage children across her subjects of expertise.
Patty Campbell
English, Elementary School
Ms. Campbell has a BS in Family Studies from Cornell University and an MS in Education from Bank Street College. She has experience teaching many different grades of students in elementary school.
Ms. Campbell teaches English to Lower and Middle Elementary students at BHA.
Carolyn Chin
English, Elementary School
Carolyn attended UC Berkeley for her Bachelor's, Teaching Credential and Master's Degree in Comparative Literature. She spent over 30 years teaching English in public schools and now brings her talents and experience to teach BHA students writing, with special focus on grammar and clarity of thought.
Adjunct Teachers
Tina Tian
Adjunct Teacher of Music
Ms. Tian is a graduate of the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in China. She teaches chorus and piano to BHA students and provides 1-on-1 piano lessons as after school enrichment.
Mike Lam
Adjunct Teacher of Automotive
Mr. Lam is an automotive professional and teaches BHA students all about cars as well as road and personal safety. His hands-on classes introduce students to fundamental concepts of mechanics, electricity and other scientific principles.
Patrick Sheehan
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Teacher
Patrick has a Ph. D is Sociology and worked as a 2nd grade teacher for Teach for America. He teaches weekly Science and SEL classes for BHA.
Gerry Maddalozzo
Adjunct Teacher of Technology
Mr. Maddalozzo is an IT professional and has run his own IT consulting firm for many decades. He has also taught programming and robotics to primary and secondary students for many years. He currently teaches technology to BHA students once a week.
Advisory Board Members
Douglas S. Chan
Attorney, President of Chinese Historical Society
Douglas S. Chan is an accomplished attorney with more than 40 years’ experience in international and domestic business law. He has held numerous public service positions throughout his career, including as a two-term commissioner with the San Francisco Civil Service Commission. Doug has served on various commissions and boards, including the California Small Business Board; San Francisco’s Human Rights and Police commissions; the city’s Permit Appeals, Tax Assessment Appeals, and Rent Stabilization & Arbitration boards; and the Mayor’s Chinatown Economic Development Group. Doug is also a founding trustee and incorporator of The Bay School of San Francisco, a past trustee of the Cathedral School for Boys, a former member of the Lowell High School Site Council, and a four-term president of the Chinese Historical Society of America.
Doug is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California Davis School of Law.
Quentin L. Kopp
Attorney, Politician & Jurist
Hon. Quentin L. Kopp was trained as a lawyer and has been a long-time public servant in San Francisco and California. He was a California Superior Court Judge, a California State Senator, and a Supervisor of San Francisco City and County.
Before holding public offices, Judge Kopp served in the US Air Force, in the Office of Special Investigations and the Judge Advocate General Corps. He was Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and a member of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. He has also been the long-time President of the San Francisco Taxpayer Association, championing for responsible government spending.
Judge Kopp received his BA from Dartmouth College and JD from Harvard Law School.
Bill Maher
Long Time San Francisco City Leader
Bill Maher is a long time San Francisco city leader who was twice-elected President of the SF Board of Education, a three-term SF Supervisor, the Executive Director of Parking and Traffic, a Commissioner of the Bay Development and Conservation District and Development Commission, a Golden Gate Bridge District director, and the Senior Advisor to the Airport Director of the San Francisco International Airport.
Perseverance, transformation and community service mark his life’s story. From a juvenile delinquent without a high school diploma or undergraduate credits, he helped build and finance several Delancey Street Foundation’s enterprises. After graduating from USF law school and gaining admission to the California State Bar, Bill was elected to the San Francisco school board. This began his more than a half-century’s strategic partnership with the Chinese community in voter registration and education, candidate development, and civic engagement.
Gordon Rausser
Economist, Professor of the Graduate School, UC Berkeley
Gordon Rausser is currently the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dean Emeritus, at Rausser College of Natural Resources and more recently, a professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. On three separate occasions, he served as chairman of the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, served two terms as Dean of the Rausser College of Natural Resources, and has served on the board of trustees of public universities and one private university. Gordon has been appointed to more than 20 board of directors of both private and publicly traded companies, including chairman of several of such boards.
Gordon's federal government service includes Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President, Chief Economist at the Agency for International Development and as President of the Institute for Policy Reform.
John F. Rothmann
Renowned Radio Talk Show Host, Author, and Historian
John F. Rothmann is a fourth generation San Franciscan and President of the George Washington High School Alumni Association for the past 50 years. He is a renowned radio talk show host, lecturer, published author, historian and professor. A frequent lecturer on American politics and the presidency, John has been involved in education and a broad variety of political campaigns on the national, state and local levels.
John's personal library of 15,000 volumes is widely recognized as one of the finest libraries of American political history and biography in the United States and is accessed by scholars, graduate students and authors when conducting research. John has spoken on more than 150 college and university campuses throughout the United States and Canada and delivered the Baccalaureate address at the United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs.
Yulin Xu
CEO, Olixus Inc; Education Researcher
Yulin Xu is a seasoned Silicon Valley technology innovator and entrepreneur, an education researcher, a Professor of Practice at International School of Chief Technology Officer (CTO), East China Normal University (ECNU), and a former Adjunct Faculty of Master of Global Entrepreneurship and Management (MGEM) at University of San Francisco's (USF) School of Management.
Yulin's research focus is AI education, a field that has great potential to benefit society. As a USF educated scholar, she believes in USF’s mission “to promote justice through education,” and believes that "education is the science and art of love."
Yulin has a BS in Computer Science from Sun Yat-sen University in China, MS Computer Science and EdD in Learning & Instruction from University of San Francisco.
Jian Zhang
CEO of Chinese Hospital (San Francisco)
Dr. Jian Zhang is an innovative healthcare executive with 20+ years of progressive experience in hospital & clinics, health plan and medical group management. She joined Chinese Hospital in 1993 after coming from China to study nursing at University of California San Francisco. Before she was named as CEO in 2017 to lead the 124-year-old community-owned Chinese Hospital, she was the Chief Operating Officer of the hospital which provides culturally and linguistically appropriate quality care to patients in the San Francisco Chinatown community. Under her steadfast leadership, Chinese Hospital helped the San Francisco Chinatown community avoid a COVID-19 outbreak.
Jian has a BS from Sun Yat-sen University in China, MS in Nursing from University of California San Francisco, and Doctorate in Nursing Practice, Healthcare System Executive Leadership from University of San Francisco.