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Yang Yue is a Chinese politician, and the current head of the United Front Department of the Jiangsu provincial organization of the Communist Party of China. He previously held office as Communist Party Secretary of Fuzhou and Vice Governor of Jiangsu. Yang had extensive background in the Communist Youth League. He was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Jeehiun Katherine Lee is an organic chemist and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Rutgers University. She currently runs a research lab on the New Brunswick campus.

Shen Tong is an American impact investor, activist, and writer. He founded business accelerators FoodFutureCo in 2015 and Food-X in 2014, the latter of which is recognized by Fast Company as one of "The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Food". He was a Chinese dissident who was exiled as one of the student leaders in the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Shen was one of the People of the Year in Newsweek 1989, and he became a media, software, social entrepreneur, and investor in the late 1990s. He serves on the board of Food Tank.