Carey Moncaster

Carey Moncaster, MA

  • Instructional Designer, Stanford e-China

616 Jane Stanford Way
Encina Hall, E005
Stanford, CA 94305-6060

Biography

Carey Moncaster is the instructional designer of the Stanford e-China Program. She launched the program as instructor for the inaugural course, Technologies Changing the World: Design Thinking into Action, and now designs and manages Climate Tech Innovation and U.S.-China Collaboration, Design Thinking into Action: Teen Well-being, and the Wit and Pep Initiative

She has worked as a curriculum consultant for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) on additional projects, including co-authoring curriculum units:

Sustainable Development and Modern China
Understanding China in the 21st Century

Carey worked in Seattle’s high tech world of start-up ventures, collaborating with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and industry professionals. Prior, Carey founded and served as Executive Director of Pacific Village Institute for ten years, with programs based in China, India, Vietnam, New York, and Seattle, working with educational leaders and organizations to develop and implement global education programs in Asia and the U.S. for students and educators from over 100 public and independent high schools.

Carey lived in China off and on from the early 1990s though 2006 working at Nanjing and Zhejiang Universities, as well as with environmental NGOs in Beijing and Yunnan Province with a focus on water and energy issues. She received her M.A. from Stanford University with a focus on modern China, and a B.A. from UC Berkeley. Carey was selected by the Asia Society as a U.S. delegate to join the Asia21 Global Leadership Forum and cohort. 

In The News

Liyi Ye, Advisor to Stanford e-China, piloting a plane over Stanford and the Bay Area
Blogs

Bridging Cultures: A Forward-Looking Conversation with Liyi Ye

Stanford e-China Advisor helps shape U.S.–China collaborative programs.
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Honorees of the Stanford e-China Program pose with alumni of the China Scholars Program and SPICE staff.
Blogs

Worth the Wait: Reflections on the Inaugural SPICE China Day

Congratulations to the Stanford e-China student honorees 2020–2023.
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Yoyo Chang portrait
Blogs

A Design Thinking-into-Action Mindset

The following article is a guest post written by Yoyo Chang, an alumna and honoree of the Spring 2021 Stanford e-China Program. Currently, Yoyo is a junior at Shenzhen College of International Education in China.
cover link A Design Thinking-into-Action Mindset