Alumna
Jasmine Lau, a Yale economics graduate, received the Bob Christian Alumna of the Year 2014-15 Award in recognition for dedicating her career to supporting NGOs. She began work with the Narada Foundation, which helps build capacity within grassroots social entrepreneurs and NGOs in China, and later co-founded Philanthropy in Motion (PIM), an organization that provides young people with the funds, training, and networks to become mission-driven leaders and amplify their social impact.
She and her co-founder also developed Kliptap, a crowdfunding platform for social causes that allows young people to participate and be engaged in philanthropy, and provides tools to run online campaigns at low cost.
When Jasmine returned to HKIS to accept the Bob Christian Alumna of the Year 2014-15 Award, she said, “I have to thank HKIS for exposing me to the values of community service, through Humanities 1 in Action, Interim trips, and the myriad opportunities to get involved, including a senior project I did called EMBER that involves supporting girls’ education in rural China that I am still working on to this day, seven years later. It is very rare find a school that commits to offering students valuable opportunities to cultivate their social conscience and inspire them to action.”
In February 2016, Forbes magazine named Jasmine as one of its “30 under 30 Social Entrepreneurs in Asia.”