Lin Keting: I want to change this imbalanced world
November 15th, 2009 | Published in Speakers
Lin Keting, from South China University of Technology, joined iFAIR China Fair Trade Center as part staff and part volunteer. She’s focused on the benefits from fair trade and worked simultaneously on Simple HAUS (a handmade crafts brand and store) and the Desert Island Library Project (Web2.0 share of second-hand bookstore thinking) administrator. In the Summer of 2007 when Lin worked at the University of California Berkeley School of Journalism on a documentary about AIDS she had her first experience outside of the academic ivory tower and was exposed to the margins of society, vulnerable groups and the world of NGOs. Before the 2009 Chinese New Year, she went to western India to do research on local NGOs in rural India, the living conditions for indigenous populations, rural development, craft based development, and the promotion of rural products. In 2007 she attended California State University Los Angeles on an academic exchange program. In 2008, she worked at Shunya Communications and as a research assistant to University of Hong Kong Business School Vice President David Tse.
林可亭: 华南理工大学大四学生，现为“乐创益公平贸易发展中心”半个工作人员+半个志愿者.主要打理乐创益第一个公平贸易点——简HAUS，兼为荒岛图书馆（Web2.0共享思想的二手书店）管理员。2007年暑天，协助美国伯克利大学新闻与传播学院制作主题为“艾滋病”的纪录片， 始走出象 塔，接触各 社会边缘人士以及弱势群体，从此走进NGO的世界。2009年春节前，赴印度西部，为当地NGO SVS工作，深入印度农村，针对原住民生存条件、农村建设、手工艺发展、农村产品推广等进行研究调查。2007年赴美国洛杉矶州立大学进行学术交流，2008年在宣亚国际公 工作；同年，成为香港大学商学院副院长谢贵枝教授在中国内地的研究助手之一。