Management & Coordination

Michael Jones

Founding Director

Michael has worked in education, youth empowerment, and nonprofit governance for over a decade. Before turning 20, he served on the board of directors for both local and national youth advocacy nonprofits in addition to co-founding a political action committee aimed at promoting human rights. He went on to spend six years in the classroom, teaching various ages and subjects in both the US and abroad, until moving to rural Cambodia to work as an education consultant. This work led him to merge his two great loves in life, education and open content, and he founded Open Equal Free to spread the best possible education to the most difficult corners of the world as efficiently as possible.

Michael has spoken on creating quality resources for the developing world in Singapore, on how we learn in Siem Reap, on rethinking education development at TEDxPhnom Penh, and on the power of open content at TEDxUF.

Ling Shu

Editor in Chief, Ed Now

Ling Shu has been passionate about education and involved in tutoring and mentoring since high school. While studying English Literature and Mandarin Chinese at Haverford College, Ling worked with students of many ages both in the US and abroad. In the summer of 2008, Ling was a Teaching Exchange Intern at the Huangshi Institute of Technology in China, where she taught English and American culture to Chinese high school students. While stateside, Ling volunteered in an afterschool support program for at-risk children at a West Philadelphia charter school. After graduating from Haverford, she went on to work briefly in the non-profit industry before becoming a Design Associate at The Richardson Company.

Megan Smith

Program Coordinator: /Collaboration

Megan served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Timor-Leste from 2004 to 2006, where she worked on health education and promotion with a local health center. She then went on to earn her MA in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. Currently, she works with Caring for Cambodia as the Deputy Country Manager, and also finds time to moonlight as Open Equal Free’s /Collaboration coordinator.

Program Assistants

Sean Yi

Ed Now

Aldina Dzebo

Specialist, SE Europe

Alice Formwalt

Specialist, SE Asia

Education Now Reporters

Ying Jia Huang

Sera Yoo

Catarina Loreiro

Mantra Roy

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Directors

None of this would be possible without our board of directors. A small and growing group, the board is compiled of not only people who are passionate about our work, but who come with a wide variety of training and knowledge to help Open Equal Free be the best it can be.