Lily is a photographer and theatre teaching artist, an advocate for Art Integration in schools and in families. She loves working with children.

Raised in an artist’s family, Lily is benefit from an early art education in painting, calligraphy and music. Lily strongly believes in aesthetic education. Her two daughters inspire her to shift focus to Art Integration. She discovers that children respond well through artful way of teaching. Besides photography and theater, Lily’s research interest includes and is not limited to Early Child Development, Bilingual Education, children's way of learning and Art Integration.

Lily started to work as a theater teaching assistant at Main Street Theater in Houston since 2016. She has been teaching theater in China during Summer since 2015. In 2018, she led a group of three theater artists from Houston to China, giving multiple workshops to both kids and teachers. In 2019, she participated in the 5th International Drama Education Conference (IDEC) held in China and completed a 3-day master class training with Jonathan Neelands. In July, she designed and conducted 6 theater workshops for both kids and teachers with her U.S. colleagues. In 2021, she completed a 5-month professional development and residency program with YA Arts Learning Lab. The YA network has helped to broaden her horizon tremendously. She completed the Trauma-Informed Art Practice Training in 2021 and the annual 50 hours Responsive Arts in School Education (RAISE) Program from 2022 to 2025. Lily is a proud translator for the theater book, A School Play.

Lily believes that there is an artist living inside every child, as a teacher, she needs to provide a safe space to connect that inner artist with the learning and empower them with art.