Gumgum believes that in the post-Covid world, social innovation is one of the most powerful remedies to heal divides and injustices caused by greed and inequality, and to rebuild more empowering and resilient communities. The buzzword is “change” – yet, systemic change and mindset change is a dialectic process, and that is what social innovation is about.

Gumgum is a cross-disciplinary cultural advocate who has accumulated knowledge, built social networks and human connections by working in different fields – as a social innovation project director at Good Lab (JC YouthCreate), a gender/culture lecturer in various universities, a radio host at RTHK, an editor, an arts administrator and former District Councillor in Wanchai. She is also currently a Director of Hong Kong Children’s Musical Theatre.

Gumgum earned a BFA in Communication Arts (NYIT), an MPhil studying women and enlightenment in Buddhism (CUHK), and a Ph.D. researching on the relationship of community building and coloniality (HKU).

Above all, Gumgum is a singer-songwriter and a fiction writer.

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