With 10 years of experience in photography,
Janny finds “learning to look” the most pleasurable educational experience of her life. She has won numerous awards for her photography and creative writing works (including a Championship in “Hong Kong Portraits” writing competition, The 4th Hong Kong Literature Festival, and a Distinction Award in Living English Essay Competition) and she enjoys sharing her creativity and perspectives with different people.

 

Janny represented Hong Kong as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in the United Kingdom in the academic year of 2002-03. In recognition of her service to Rotary District 3450, she was made a Paul Harris Fellow in 2006. She is currently serving on the district’s Scholarship Subcommittee.

 

As a keen traveller, Janny has visited more than thirty countries and counting, and to add value to her traveling, she often collects resources (such as toys and stationery) from developed countries and distribute them as she travels to developing countries. Her to-do-list includes a plan to teach English to village children in Nepal during her vacation time in 2008.

 

Janny graduated with a BA with first class honors from
The University of Hong Kong, double majoring in translation and linguistics. She then pursued an
MPhil and PhD at The University of Cambridge with generous support from The Rotary, The Sir Edward Youde Memorial Overseas Fellowship and a number of other scholarship.

 

Janny has also worked as a journalist, teacher, writer, translator and researcher.