Staff & Instructors
Administrative Team

Avery Wan
Principal & Operating Director

Regina Wei
Program Manager
Website: yuanjin-wei.com
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wyjart
Behance(online porfolio): https://www.behance.net/yuanjinwei

Melissa Eisen
Afterschool Manager
Performing Art Department

Edward Victor
Teacher

Latechia G. Mitchell
Teacher
In her varied work throughout the years with children and teens, she has been able to develop a creative muscle that she continues to stretch and train. Ms. Mitchell has learned and taught black and white photography, newspaper, drama, visual art, dance, and supported students in their academic pursuits throughout her professional experiences. She has directed plays, written music, and choreographed dance for students for over 10 years in camps and classes.
Highlights of her work with students include creating an environmental club that continues at the CCCS-Trinidad Campus in Northeast DC, facilitating students in Fairfax County to retell and write their own version of the Firebird Suite, and directing her 2nd grade class in a reader’s theatre production of Cendrion, a Caribbean Cinderella. Currently, Ms. Mitchell teaches Funny Songs and Hands on Art here at Cathay Future. She is excited to be a part of the visionary staff that offers classes here to students.

Katie Nerud
She is excited to be returning to Washington Cathay to instruct its dynamic students in a variety of Communications courses.
STEM Department

Luke Ikard
Teacher
Language Arts Teacher

Nicole Taylor
Teacher
Dr. Taylor believes that thorough preparation for success via education and exploration is key to unlocking the possibilities to students' futures.
She is excited to be returning to Washington Cathay to instruct its dynamic students in a variety of Communications courses.
Chinese Program

Diana Wobus
CHINESE PROGRAM MANAGER

Qian Ning
CHINESE ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Yihong Chen
CHINESE INSTRUCTOR
作为2016杰出中文教师获奖者,陈艺虹老师是一位经验丰富的中文教师。曾任大学副教授的陈老师在移居美国后多年来执教包括马立平中文在内的中文课程,她秉承以学生为中心、重视沟通与互动的教学理念,善于灵活运用故事、辩论、游戏等各种不同教学法让来自不同文化背景和年龄段的孩子们融入课堂、享受课堂、尽情交流。

Vicky Li
CHINESE INSTRUCTOR
李凡丁老师是一位专精低年级小朋友中文教学的优秀教师。出生在中国并在美国接受教育的她熟悉美国的教学风格和理念,尤其擅长于边游戏边教中文,通过歌曲、故事等丰富多彩的活动激发孩子的学习中文的兴趣,寓教于乐,让孩子们在最开始的阶段爱上中文。
Dance Program
Music Teacher

Sabrina Yu
CHINESE MUSIC Teacher
- 1999年,以湖北省总分第一的专业成绩考入华中师范大学,音乐教育学院,主修声乐、合唱专业。2001年,考入Tian kong合唱团,参加全国各大合唱比赛,屡次获得第一名!同年,随Tian kong合唱团,代表中国参加“舒伯特国际合唱比赛”获女生组特别大奖,混声组一等奖。2003年以优异的成绩毕业,获得学士学位。
- 2003--2005年,任职于首都师范大学音乐系,多次被评为“优秀青年教师”。
- 2003--2005年,被北京市青少年宫特聘为音乐教师,组织排练各项大型演出。
- 2005--2014年,任职于中南民族大学音乐系,组织成立“中南民族大学合唱团”,获得省内外各大奖项!本人多次被评为“优秀青年教师”。
- 2008年,考入华中师范大学教育学院,攻读教育硕士研究生,以优异的成绩修完全部课程,获得硕士学位。
- 2015年--至今,在华夏未来华盛顿中心,担任音乐教师。
Multi-Theme Teacher

Hui Zhuang
Teacher

Bryan Foo
MATH Teacher
Bryan also had the initiative to start and teach a math competitions class at Hope Chinese School. The class has been a huge success, giving the class a great reputation, both among parents and students. His students even won several awards in the Montgomery Blair Math Tournament. He is also a seasoned tutor for the Math Olympiad at the Lead 4 Future organization.
Besides math, Bryan also loves to write. His online web serial book has received thousands of views and dozens of likes from readers around the world. He has also edited and published for a school magazine, and published five books on his own.

Vincent Bian
MATH Teacher
Math Kangaroo contest was the first math competition that Vincent participated in 3rd grade. Since then, he was placed top 10 nationally almost every year. He got gold medals with perfect scores for the past 3 consecutive years, and was invited to the all-expense-paid international Math Kangaroo summer camp in Poland in 2016. In middle school, Vincent has participated state MathCounts all 3 years. In 8th grade, he was chosen as one of the 4 members of the Maryland MathCounts team, which got 2nd place in National MathCounts that year. Vincent was also a major player of Roberto Clemente Science Bowl team which win 2nd place in the national final in 2015. In the American Math Competition (AMC) series contest, Vincent qualified for the American Invitational Math Exam (AIME, top 5000 students) since 6th grade, and qualified for the USA Junior Math Olympiad (USAJMO, top ~500 students) since 8th grade. He is a USAJMO winner in 2017 with a perfect score, and was invited to attend the Math Olympiad Program (MOP, top ~50 students). MOP is the most prestigious math camp in the USA with the goal of training and selecting the USA math team for the International Math Olympiad.
In high school, Vincent won top 10 individual awards from many college-held math competitions, e.g. UMD Math Competition, Harvard-MIT Math Tournament, Princeton University Math Competition, John Hopkins Math Tournament, Carnegie Mellon Informatics and Mathematics Competition. Among these, his 3rd place winning of UMD math competition provides him a full-ride scholarship to UMD if and when he chooses to attend UMD after high school graduation. Besides math, Vincent is also a bronze medal winner of USA Physics Olympiad and a Platinum division participant in USA Computing Olympiad.
To help younger students to enjoy the beauty of math, Vincent has also volunteered to teach math competition to middle school students at Hope Chinese School for the past two years.
(IT Intern: Mingjie Jiang)