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Welcome our new contributing blogger, Mark Hiew!

I told you I was expanding!

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I’d like to introduce you to our newest team member, Mark Hiew:

My name is Mark Hiew. I am currently based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, where, in addition to writing, I teach English and study Chinese. I moved to Chengdu in August 2007. Prior to that, I worked in the knowledge management unit of CHF International, an international development NGO based in Silver Spring, Md. from 2005 to 2007.

I was born in Perth, Western Australia to Chinese-Malaysian parents. I moved to Ellicott City, Md., where I completed high school and received a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Maryland at College Park.

During college, I was heavily (and remain somewhat) involved in policy advocacy on issues related to global HIV/AIDS, youth empowerment and comprehensive sexuality education, serving as a community organizer on the International Youth Leadership Council for Advocates for Youth, a sexual and reproductive health rights NGO in Washington D.C. and Student Global AIDS Campaign, a branch of the youth-led NGO Global Justice.

I covered the UN GA Special Session on AIDS in May 2006 for the blog Reproductive Health Reality Check and was a member of the international media team for the Toronto YouthForce at the International AIDS Conference (IAC) in Toronto in August 2006.

I currently sit on the board of Advocates for Youth and volunteer online for Taking IT Global, an information communication technology for development (ICT4D) NGO based in Toronto. I write on local Chengdu affairs for Chengdoo magazine, the city’s premier English language publication and keep an occasional personal blog (”Flatnose in China “).

I am particularly interested in youth activism, social entrepreneurialism and the economics of sustainability.

I once had a mullet, which I cut off in exchange for donations to a Fuel-EfficientStoves project in Darfur.

My favorite Sichuanese phrase is: “Hao fao!” (”how annoying!”)

Contact me:

mark.hiew [at] gmail [dot] com

If you are interested in joining the ResponsibleChina team, please write me at erica [at] responsiblechina [dot] com. Send 2-3 writing samples with a brief description of your interest in China, environmental affairs, social entrepreneurship or corporate social responsibility.

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