Bio:
Ni Ou earned her BA in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from East China Normal University in 2008 and her MS in Education from the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania in 2011. Ni taught all levels of Chinese classes and coordinating intensive Chinese courses at the University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2017. Ni was also coordinating and developing a beginning business Chinese course at Penn.
In addition to her efforts at Penn, Ni has also worked at several language programs including CIEE (2007-2008), Columbia Business Chinese Program in Shanghai (2008), Princeton in Beijing Instructor, 2012) and Startalk Penn High School Chinese Academy as an instructor, curriculum designer and course coordinator (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014).
In August 2024, Ni became the Director of the STARTALK Chinese Language Immersion Program at Drexel University. Managed and funded by the National Security Agency, STARTALK is a federal grant program that supports innovative courses with strong language learning outcomes for K-16 students.