June 19th, Viva’s Inspiring Women’s Series continues with internationally renowned Songqiao Yao, founder of Wildbound.

Songqiao Yao is the founder of WildBound, an innovative education and sustainability venture based in China. WildBound empowers sustainability leadership through expeditions, advocacy, as well as public communications to create a future where human live in harmony with nature. Songqiao was the first Chinese participant and faculty member of Homeward Bound, the largest ever all female expedition to Antarctica to raise awareness of women’s leadership in science. She has been to Antarctica 16 times.

Prior to founding Wildbound, Songqiao has actively campaigned on environmental justice and climate change as a researcher and youth delegate at UN climate change conferences in 2010. In 2012, she helped build the environmental NGO International Rivers’ China office and strengthened its program on river protection in China through field research and policy publications. Her ethnographic research along the Nu/Salween river has won a National Geographic Global Explorer grant. Songqiao has also consulted for a number of agriculture initiatives in Africa.

Songqiao received her Mphil in Geography from Cambridge under a Gates Scholarship, and her MBA from Oxford under a Skoll Scholarship. She graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College, the first women’s higher education institution in the U.S.

Pease join us June 19th for a truly memorable evening and dialogue with Songqiao Yao.

Early registration is highly recommended.