Joanne Liu (she/her) is the Co-Founder and CEO of Asian Girls Ignite whose mission is to build a strong community of Asian American and Pacific Islander girls and women to celebrate their individual and collective power through shared stories. Joanne began her career as a middle school Special Education (SPED) teacher through Teach For America. Since then, she’s spent years as a high school SPED teacher, a middle school Assistant Principal, a Director of Operations for Turing School of Software & Design, and a Program Coordinator at CU Boulder’s McNair Scholars Program. She has a BA in English & American Literature and Secondary Education and a MS in Organizational Leadership from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Outside of education, she serves on the Board of Directors of Colorado Asian Pacific United and founded the Mile High Asian Food Week. She enjoys Asian food, BTS, Korean dramas, and spending time with her husband and two kids. Joanne’s favorite way of celebrating her Chinese heritage is by lion dancing. To her, it represents culture and empowerment.
