Ms. Qiu received her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Sheffield, UK. Ms. Qiu holds a Utah K-8 Elementary Teaching License with Endorsement in Chinese and ESL. For the past 3 years, Ms. Qiu has taught kindergarten, elementary school and middle school students in Beijing, China, and Victoria, Australia. Ms. Qiu was born in Ningbo, China, and she first came to the U.S. as an exchange student at SUNY Oswego in 2014-2015. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the zheng, a Chinese instrument, with the Utah Chinese Folk Orchestra. She also loves travelling and discovering delicious food around the world.