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
Similar to her father, Bert Hsu, 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 3 companies in both Silicon Valley and China for over 18 years.
Ann holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Penn 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, helped lead the historic and successful Recall School Board campaign in 2022, and was appointed by the San Francisco Mayor to serve on the SFUSD Board of Education.
At BHA, in addition to her administrative and external facing duties, Ann teaches Reading and Chinese Culture class to middle school students and Coding class to elementary school students.
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, President 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.
In addition to her administrative and operational duties at BHA, Quincy teaches Reading to elementary school students.
Matt Allen
Director of School & Teacher
Matt is a 4th generation San Franciscan and a
proud graduate of SFUSD. He attended Lowell High School before earning dual honors degrees from UC Santa Barbara.
He then spent 7 years in China working as a teacher and journalist, and went on to start Flying Tiger CrossFit--the first CrossFit gym in Western China.
After returning to San Francisco, Matt earned his teaching credential and Master’s in Education from the University of San Francisco while teaching math and coaching basketball and baseball at Galileo High School. He took over a winless women’s basketball program and built it into a perennial playoff contender.
At BHA, Matt teaches English and Humanities to middle school students, Science and phonics to elementary school students, and directs campus activities for the entire BHA student body.
Our Teachers
Our educators team includes core subject teachers for English, math, and Chinese, as well as expert adjunct instructors in subjects like science, 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.
Kathy Meng
Mandarin Chinese Teacher
Kathy is originally from China and has been teaching Mandarin Chinese in the United States for more than 15 years. She has designed curricula to engage diverse learners from beginners to those preparing to take the AP Chinese Language and Culture test.
In addition to teaching all of our students Mandarin Chinese with simplified characters, Kathy also teaches Chinese Culture class which includes traditional Chinese holidays and foods, the four great inventions of paper making, printing, gunpowder and compass, and other traditional Chinese culture topics. Kathy uses stories to engage children across her subjects of expertise.
Carolyn Chin
English, Elementary & Middle School
Carolyn is a 3rd generation San Franciscan. She attended UC Berkeley for her Bachelor's degree, 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.
Emma Wang
Bilingual Chinese & English K-2 Teacher
Emma has more than eight years of experience teaching pre-school and elementary school students using both English and Chinese. She is certified in early childhood education and was a licensed social worker and psychotherapist in China.
Before joining BHA, Emma was the lead teacher in a pre-school family center working with 3-5 year olds including children with special needs.
Edward Lee
Math, Elementary & Middle School
Edward has a BA in Math from UC Santa Cruz and an MA in Math Education from University of San Francisco. He has strong knowledge of mathematics and the ability to teach a range of math subjects to students ranging from elementary to high school.
Before joining BHA, Edward taught math to middle school students for 4 years and founded his own math tutoring center.
Adjunct Teachers
Tina Tian
Adjunct Teacher of Music
Tina 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
Mike 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.
Naomi Hyun
Adjunct Teacher of Science, Tinkering & Gardening
Naomi has run Maker summer camps for many years and now leads BHA students in hands-on learning in Tinkering class, outdoor learning in our BHA garden as well as classroom learning about scientific principles through many hands-on experiments.
Art Xu
Adjunct Teacher of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
Art is a licensed psychotherapist and teaches weekly SEL classes to middle school students at BHA so that they can become aware of their own feelings and manage their emotional wellbeing.
Wilson Sierra
Adjunct Teacher of Digital Music
Wilson is a local creator specializing in the production of hip hop music, photography with an emphasis in portraiture, and is the head designer of BSG fashion house.
Charles Durazo
Adjunct Teacher of Improv
Charles has been a practicing comedian and improv performer for two decades and leads BHA middle school students in exercises that build empathy, force students out of their comfort zone and think quickly on their feet.
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.