Summer is from Guilin, Guangxi. She holds a BA in language and an MA in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from Guangxi Normal University.

Summer started her career in education as a Chinese teacher with China’s prestigious Hanban organization. During this time, Summer taught at the Ministry of Education in Thailand and the C&C Language Center in the Philippines. In 2014, she joined the CLI team.

As Student Activities Manager, Summer is responsible for organizing the out-of-class component of CLI’s language learning system. She also continues to teach class and loves to talk to students, answer their questions, and help them experience the best of CLI, Guilin, and the Mandarin language.