Meet team MAZE

Team members are not listed by any particular order
Xinran (April) Yu

April first studied abroad at 15.  Since then, her heart is set out for helping lost young souls on their travels. She obtained Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Master of Social Work at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. With 3000 hours of providing therapy services for Chinese youths and families, she became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois in 2017. April has then focused her career in furthering mental health awareness and care in her very own community of international students and alumni. 
Zhongxiaohe (Cassie) Hu

Xiaohe is a New York State Licensed Master Social Worker currently working as a adolescent therapist at MHSC/Thrive NYC. She graduated from Columbia School of Social Work majoring in Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming in the filed of mental health. With the training of both macro and micro practice, Xiaohe is passionate about researching and providing best individualized care for teenagers, young adults and their families.
Yuwei Zhang

Yuwei is a Graduate Assistant for the Provost Scholars Program and MASS candidate with a mental health specialization. Ms. Zhang is a member of Harvard SEED for Social Innovation and the founder of Maze and One Dollar Project Funds. She has been working with children for almost five years and is trying to explore all the possibilities intersecting social innovation, education, mental health, and art therapy. She is excited to work with all the young, talented teenagers with enriched opportunities for learning, project support, best practice sharing, and resources.
Lingyue Lu

Lingyue (Karen) Lu is a current doctoral student with The George Washington University in the Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology program. She holds an MSW in Clinical Social Work from Fordham University and a BA in Advertising and Applied Communication from Nanjing Forestry University. She is a New York State Licensed Master Social Worker and has more than three years of clinical experience of providing counseling and treatment services to different ethnic groups in New York City. Her research and clinical interests involve in mood disorders and their impacts on ethnic minority adolescents’ development, cross-culture component and its impact on teen-parent relationships, and teen with neurodevelopment issue and comorbid emotional disturbance. She also is interested in intervention and treatment approaches such as Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Model.  Lingyue also focuses on helping the Chinese community with the mental health resource building and providing the most culturally appropriate treatment services as move forward in her career ahead. 

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Yi (Nemia) Zhou
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Nemia is currently a first-year graduate student in Human Development Counseling at Vanderbilt University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Community/Clinical Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and minored in Philosophy. She had close experience in inpatient reception and rudimentary psychometrics evaluation during her internship at Tongde hospital in Zhejiang Providence, China. Her research interests involve acculturation, bicultural competence, mindfulness and self-actualization. Despite her passion for promoting awareness of mental health well-being, she loves culinary art and singing. 
Ziyu Wang

​Ziyu is currently a second-year graduate student in Social Service Administration at Case Western Reserve University, concentrating in Community Practice in Social Change. She interned at Cleveland City Hall and Center for Dialysis Care. She also volunteered many non-profit organizations to enrich her professional area. As an international student, she found many students have trouble engaging in the life of a study abroad. Since then, she would like to help many Chinese-speaking students to participate in the new environment.
​Guolin (Cleo) Zhang
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Cleo is currently a second-year graduate student in Mental Health Counseling at Boston College, with a concentration in Child and Family Mental Health. She received her bachelor’s degree in Applied Psychology at Sun Yet-san University, China, and in Psychology at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Her 2019-2020 internship will be at Bournewood Health System Adult Mental Health Partial Program in Boston, where she will be leading and co-leading therapy groups, doing individual check-ins and case management. Her research interests focus on community engagement of individuals from Asian cultural background, children and family development, and positive youth development.
Qian (Cynthia) Zhang

Cynthia is a psychotherapist, working at an outpatient mental health clinic in Community Counseling & Mediation. Her work is mainly related to conduct biopsychosocial intake assessment, develop comprehensive treatment plans and discharge plans, provide psychotherapy sessions to individuals of all ages through evidence-based treatment modalities (e.g. motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy), and collaborate with psychiatrists for mental health diagnosis and medication management as well as with case managers for clients’ concrete needs and services. She received her Master’s degree from Columbia University School of Social Work and Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Zhejiang Gongshang University. She is also an on-call volunteer for Domestic & Other Violence Emergencies (DOVE) program at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Renmengya Zhou
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Renmenya  is a Licensed Social Worker currently working at an outpatient behavioral health clinic (Gouverneur Health). Her work primarily involves making initial assessments, clinical formulations, and diagnoses for newly admitted patients as well as conducting individual and group psychotherapy utilizing Evidence-Based interventions (e.g., CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, psychoanalysis) for both English and Chinese speaking patients. She received her Master’s degree in Social Work from Columbia University in 2018 and her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Tongji University in 2015. She is also an active advocate for survivors of gender-based violence. In her spare time, she likes hiking, biking, and walking around the city to explore vintage architecture.
Xin Tong
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Xin received a bachelor degree in Psychology from University of Notre Dame. She interned at the Seven’s People Hospital in Hangzhou, China. Her research experience included working at Statistical Methods for Real Data Lab at University of Notre Dame and Human-Robot Interaction Lab at Cornell University. She volunteered at Holy Cross Village Nursing Home in South Bend, Indiana. She is currently working at a startup company in China, focusing on promotion of mental health awareness. 
 Xinyi (Stacy) Wang
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Stacy is a current doctoral student with Fordham University in the Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology program. She received a bachelor degree in Psychology from the Education University of Hong Kong with first honor, concentrated in Health Psychology. She moved to New York in 2016 to pursue a Master of Social Work at Columbia University, concentrated in clinical practice and mental health issues and graduated in 2018. Her clinical approach is greatly influenced by working with people with trauma to be social-justice oriented, culturally-sensitive and strength-based. Her research interests involve acculturation, gender-based violence, resilience, trait mindfulness and mindfulness-based interventions. Outside of the academics, she is a singer, loves reading detective novels and Zumba. 
Qingyi (Janette) Lan
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Janette is currently a fourth-year undergraduate student from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She will receive her bachelor dual degree in Community Health and Molecular and Cell Biology by May 2020. She interned in Clinical Laboratory at Second Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou Medical School as lab technicians in 2017 and worked as a research assistant in Veterinary Medical School Meiosis Lab from August 2017 to June 2019. She is also an active community volunteer in Champaign-Urbana Public Health District. Her research experience would be in health promotion and population epidemiology. 
Alisa Lin

In 2017, Alisa entered a clinical mental health counseling program at Lesley University with the healthcare background. She began Family Nurse Practitioner program at Simmons College last Fall. Her long-term goal is to combine nursing and counseling skills in order to deliver comprehensive services in personal well-being. As an international student in the US, she understands the challenges.  Based on her personal experience and professional learning, she is committed to contribute substantively to this community.
Xing (Gloria) Dai
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Gloria graduated from Worcester Polytechinc Institute with a Master's degree of Marketing and Innovation in 2019. She started to care about students' mental health since she went to the United States several years ago. Gloria is also applying for her PhD program in Social psychology. She works as a marketing team member now and wish to help more international students later in her career.
Hangyi Chen

Hangyi is currently a third-year PhD student in Counseling Psychology at Fordham University. Both her research and clinical interests are primarily in the areas of immigrant health and trauma, particularly about exploring how culture interrelate with trauma and its healing. Prior to attending Fordham, HangYi worked as a licensed clinical social worker at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, providing services to forced migrants who are survivors of torture, war trauma and other forms of human rights abuses. Her other clinical experiences include working with patients diagnosed with severe mental illnesses in both outpatient and inpatient settings, and with victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and sexual assault in under-resourced communities. HangYi earned her Bachelor’s degree in Education from East China Normal University (Shanghai, China) and her Master’s in Social Work from New York University.    
Junyu (James) Zhao

James is a senior from Vanderbilt University majoring in Cognitive Studies and minoring in Economics. He decided to go to college in the South because he loves the southern courtesy and close-community atmosphere. Since he was a child, he's been traveling the world and interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds. That was what he found to be the most fulfilling thing to accomplish.
Hongzhe (Bill) Tang

Bill first studied abroad at 20. He is still in the process of obtaining Bachelor of Business Administration at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and Audencia Business School in China. Bill focuses his career in promoting mental health awareness by using marketing tools and as a member of the study abroad community, he keeps learning theories of psychology to help both others and himself.
Ye（July）Zheng

​Ye was born and raised in Zhe Jiang China. Ye graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Master of Social Work program in 2019. Her concentration in Social Work is Clinical and Mental Health. She had one year of volunteer experience and two year internship experiences in U.S. Her undergraduate educational background is also social work. She currently works in Minnesota as Career Counselor to provide employment services for people with disability. Ye is passionate about contributing to MAZE’s vision that every international student deserves better life and achieves success and wellbeing overseas. In her free time, she likes traveling, recitation, reading, jogging and hanging out with friends. 
Xiaotian (Amy) He

Amy had her Bachelor of Psychology from University of Iowa, Master of Psychology from DePaul University. She is interested in topics such as morals, emotions, and self in social psychology. Worked as a student counselor at university psychological counseling services and participated in the Indian Women and Children's Enhancement Program. 

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Zhiwei (Cara) Liang
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Cara is now a student from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), majoring in English Language and Literature. On campus, she is actively join in various extracurricular activities. She plans to have further eduation aboard, so she wants to make friends with international students in advance. Meanwhile, she is avid for helping international students out of trouble and give them warmth and love.
Lengxi Zhang
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I came to the States at the age of 14. I’m currently studying Communication and minored in Psychology. After all those years, I decided that I want to pursue my career related to NGO in the future. I have lots of friends who struggled with mental health because of school, culture and environment. I have been there before, so I want to try my best to help people around me. That’s also the reason why I join MAZE.
Yujing (Alysa) Lin
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Alysa studied psychology and journalism in University of Missouri-Columbia. After seeing many of her friends expressing concerns about their mental well-being, she started paying attention to the international student group.  She is eager to use her knowledge of psychology and her excellent writing skills to educate more students about psychology.
Song Yue
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Sept. 2014 – Jun. 2018 Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, BA Broadcasting and Hosting Arts  2016, 1st Prize in the Psychological Drama Competition of Zhejiang Higher Education Institutions. Participated in the shooting of anthropological documentary Yan-Po Documentary Filmer.Hunting for Maze became a big Family.