Christine Lin, President
Christine Lin is a passionate educator and a successful entrepreneur devoted to promoting and improving the efficacy of the educational institutions worldwide. She has earned a Master of Liberal Arts in Management from Harvard University. Christine is an ardent believer that education is a fundamental human right, and that a high quality education leads individuals to a more productive and meaningful future.
Adam Rice, Director of High School Programs
Adam joined the Cambridge Institute in 2010, adding his personal expertise in international education and the Chinese market. He earned his B.A. from Middlebury College, with concentrations in biology and Chinese studies. In the summer of 2010, supported with funding from the Fulbright Foundation, Adam performed a comparative analysis of the Chinese and US educational systems, drawing on his research and experiences both in the U.S. and in rural and metropolitan China. He also lectured to Chinese educators on American educational perspectives, sharing his personal perspective as a student in each educational system. Adam is fluent in Mandarin and his favorite city in the world is Hangzhou, China. Beyond his interest in business and international education, Adam is also passionate about the non-profit sector in East Africa.
Matt Jennings, Director of Global Marketing
Matt Jennings is a 2009 graduate of Brandeis University, where he majored in East Asian Studies, including history, economics and international relations. His area of expertise is 20th-century politics, including in particular the dynamic role of missile defense technology in Sino-Japanese relations. He has achieved a high level of fluency in Mandarin language, having completed Mandarin immersion programs at Zhejiang University of Technology and Haerbin University of Technology. Upon graduating from Brandeis, he moved to Northeast China to teach English at Benxi Number 5 Middle School in Liaoning Province. He was the school’s first-ever foreign teacher. Matt is also a dedicated runner and has served as the Assistant Cross Country Coach for the nationally ranked Brandeis Cross Country Team.
Zack Glennie, Technical Director
Zack studied physics, linguistics and Chinese at Princeton University, graduating in 2007. His research contributed to the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, a six-meter reflecting telescope built to observe the cosmic microwave background—the light from the Big Bang. Upon graduating, Zack moved to China to teach physics at Shanghai High School in the Xuhui district of Shanghai, working with students from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. As the only Western teacher of science, Zack instructed his Chinese colleagues on investigation-based science exploration as an alternative to rote memorization. Zack is interested in technology, manufacturing, management, and public policy, and in adapting our education systems to combat intolerance and foster intellectual curiosity and cultural awareness.
Greg Friedman, Research Associate
Greg is a 2006 graduate of the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he majored in Chinese Language and Literature and Psychology. He is a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese, having completed language immersion programs at Middlebury College in Vermont, Qinghua University in Beijing, and Zhejiang University of Technology in Hangzhou. After graduating, Greg moved to China where he worked as a Quality Control Analyst for an international hotel furniture manufacturer in Zhang Jia Gang, and later, as a consultant for a sports marketing firm in Shanghai. Greg is an avid baseball fan and once had the opportunity to scrimmage against members of the Chinese national team.
Melissa Rudd, Research Associate
Melissa is a 2008 graduate of Dartmouth College, where she majored in German and focused her research on the religious philosophy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the founder of modern German literature. She spent a year of her college career abroad, in Berlin and Paris, where she acquired a lifelong love of international education. Following graduation, she studied abroad in Israel for two years at the Pardes Institute of Jewish studies in Jerusalem; her second year was funded by a Dartmouth Reynolds Fellowship, which she applied to research into Halakhic (Jewish legal) justification for egalitarian participation in Jewish ritual life. In her free time she enjoys studying psychology and trying to learn guitar.
Our Team at The Cambridge Institute Head Office in Boston
