Ada has led a varied career as solicitor, educator, social innovator and civil society figure. She is a staunch advocate of social innovation, creative education and cultural development.

Ada founded the Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture (HKICC), a unique non-profit cultural organisation of which the mission is advocating education innovation and a creative civil society. Among other projects, HKICC founded in 2006 the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, a future-looking senior secondary school dedicated to nurturing creative and artistic talents.

In 2010, Ada founded the Make A Difference (MaD) initiative, a regional collaborative platform — where one explores creativity for good, meet cross-disciplinary changemakers and where different sectors synergise for innovative solutions to social challenges. In 2012, she founded Good Lab, which became an important hub where minds and actions meet in the social innovation ecosystem. Good Lab is also a cross-sector capacity builder and currently, consultancy in its new phase, to bring about innovative solutions for a more community-oriented and equitable Hong Kong.

Invited by the Mayor of Seoul, Mr Park Won-soon, Ada has been serving as a member of his “Advisory Group for Seoul Innovation” together with social innovation leaders around the world since 2016.

Ada was an elected member of the Urban Council and Wan Chai District Council between 1995 and 2008 with the final four years as Chairperson of the Wan Chai District Council. Ada has also facilitated the setting-up and development of key arts education organisations and social enterprises in the past 20 years. In addition to the above, she is Founder of the Hong Kong Children’s Musical Theatre, Vice Convenor of the Social Enterprise Summit, Director of Big Silver Community and Social Careers, and one of the founding members of Dialogue in the Dark (Hong Kong). At Ednovators, where she leads as Director, Ada is the chief designer and facilitator of a teachers innovation programme called Innopower. The programme is funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust with Ednovators as curator and partner.

She received her BA (Hons) from Pomona College, California USA, and M Ed from the University of Hong Kong. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University and The Education University of Hong Kong respectively.

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