Formally taught Introduction to Film and American Culture at, The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, in Beijing, China.
Speaks conversational Mandarin Chinese, and some basic Cantonese.
At the Univeristy of Kansas was the student of frequent Sundance Film Festival attendees, KU Theatre and Film Dept. Associate Professors, Kevin Willmott and Matt Jacobson.
Once lived in the Beijing Film Academy's Foreign Student Hotel while taking morning classes in basic Chinese at the Academy, while working afternoons at Warner China Film HG at the Beijing Film Studio.