Shoufen Jacobson, M.S., M.A., ED.D., was born in Shandong, China. She is proficient in both the language and culture of Chinese and English, and has exceptional ability to conceptualize educational innovative projects and bring them to fruition. Her visionary leadership and broad range of skills have led to sustained educational innovations that have impacted hundreds, if not thousands, of learners, creating globally competent students with high levels of achievement in world languages, math, and computer science. As an educator and educational leader, she has created programs which will be carried on into the future by others as she moves on to new creative endeavors. Shoufen initially pursued her education in China, where she received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Shandong Normal University in 1986, and her master’s degree in Marine-Biotechnology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990. To further her education and career, she moved to the United States where she is now a U.S. citizen and received her second master degree in Computer Science at Connecticut State University in 2003, and her Doctorate degree in Education from Gardner-Webb University in 2013. She worked as a computer programmer for Travelers Insurance Company in Connecticut over five years. In 2006, due to her husband’s new job assignment, she moved to North Carolina and became a teacher. She has extensive experiences in teaching Chinese language immersion program and designing Chinese immersion curricular materials. She is currently teaching several computer programming courses and AP Computer Sciences courses in public high school setting in the United States. She has over 10 years of experience as a classroom instructor in the public education system in the United States. Having taught grade Kindergarten, 2, 3, and 4th in Chinese language immersion setting, she now teaches 9-12 grade. She also has experience in the North Carolina Virtue Public School System, where she has taught the online AP Computer Science programming course and created two online AP computer Science programming curricular modules, which will be used for the future students in the public education in North Carolina and United States.