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Songqiao Yao is the founder of WildBound, an innovative social enterprise that facilitates experiential education, climate actions, and artistic expression to cultivate sustainability leadership and systems change. Songqiao is also a mindfulness-based coach and facilitator, currently building a awareness-based network to support leadership and
resilience for environmental organizations in Asia.
Prior to founding WildBound, Songqiao was the first Chinese participant and faculty member for Homeward Bound, the largest all-female science and leadership expedition to Antarctica. Over the past 10 years, she has led and advised youth climate organizations and projects, worked to conserve China’s rivers as a National Geographic Global Explorer, and consulted on agriculture development projects in Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.
Songqiao received a Mphil in Geography from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar and a MBA from Oxford as a Skoll Scholar.