Successful young professionals Jonathan Hirsch, Dalton '01, CTO, HMS LLC and Morgan A. Jones, Middlebury/Johns Hopkins SAIS, Queens Borough Director of Community Affairs, Office of the Mayor, NYC, representatives from both public and private sectors who speak fluent Chinese and who have lived, studied, and worked in China, shared their personal experiences. They spoke about their time in China, and how this important experience, coupled with mastery of Chinese language and culture, helped shape their personal growth and career development.

Ms. Mona Zhao mzhao@dalton.org, Director of Dalton's Confucius Classroom program and Mandarin teacher, hosted the event and Adam Lanphier, Mandarin teacher moderated. Ms. Zhao also provided a few of the photographs.