He has been a successful businessman and investor for over 50 years, founding companies in manufacturing, data communications hardware, and Integrative Medicine. He is also the co-founder of the Andres Institute of Art which created and operates a public access sculpture park on 140 acres in Brookline NH.

She currently teaches 10th grade Literary and Language Arts (LALA) at Boston Arts Academy, the only public visual and performing arts school in Massachusetts. In her classroom, she strives to be student-centered, arts integrated and social justice oriented.

This position also allows her to serve as a teacher-consultant, meaning she travels to schools in Boston and surrounding areas to lead professional development workshops for teachers of varying grade levels (K-12). She has presented research in Stockholm, Sweden and Matsuyama, Japan in front of international communities for work related to building the capacity for elementary students to use imaginative thinking for writing and communicating with a justice lens. She has published a chapter about this topic, as well as co-authored a paper about imagination in the literary arts. She has also produced a short documentary film, Dangerous Curves, that has screened at several film festivals.

Raised on a small farm with traditional life methods and materials, Janna has since embraced every opportunity to explore the world. Her curiosity started in 1973, at 21 years old, she drove the length of Africa; since then she has had direct cultural experience in 52 countries. As an explorer, Janna absorbs history, culture and science which she reflects upon in her work. Janna’ work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally. She has received numerous grants including from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artist Foundation. Janna is a Board member of CAI, and is a member of the International Ceramics Academy (IAC) and the NCECA Green Task Force. Previously Janna served on the Board of Transcultural Exchange. Janna has been a Professor at MassArt since 1977.

She has been a professional sculptor since 1986, and her art ventures in many states (NH, ME, NY, VA, MA) and countries (Croatia, England, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Hong Kong, Nepal and Taiwan). Yin holds a MFA in sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art and was an adjunct faculty at the College of the Holy Cross from 2000 to 2013. She is currently the Executive Director of CAI. Most of her artwork is in the permanent collection of CAI/YV Art Museum.

During his career in diplomacy, he is a strong advocate for the environmental issues, he had represented Taiwan attending more than 20 significant global environmental, climate change, biological diversity, water resources meetings. The highlight of his diplomat career stands in his ambassadorship in Tuvalu, Australia and South Pacific States. After the conclusion of his Ambassadorship to South Pacific States, he retired from being a diplomat, and has been an art supporter and a PhD candidate in the Fine Art at the National Taiwan University of the Arts.