Amy Cheng is the instructor of Stanford e-Eiri Girls High School and Stanford e-Kagoshima City for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). As of 2023 she has returned to SPICE on a part-time basis while she continues to work at Sony Interactive Entertainment as senior manager of a 12-member content creation team in the United States and the United Kingdom. Prior to Sony, she was a technical/education writer at Pearson Education as well as a curriculum writer for SPICE. In the earlier years with SPICE, she helped develop curricular units on Hiroshima, China in the 21st century, and U.S.–Mexico relations.

In the mid-1990s, Amy was a graduate student at Stanford University, completing coursework toward an M.A. in East Asian Studies and an M.A. in International Comparative Education at the Graduate School of Education. She received her degree from the Center for East Asian Studies in 1998. As an undergraduate, Amy studied English at the University of California at Berkeley.

Amy was born in Yokohama, Japan, and immigrated to the Bay Area in the late ’70s with her family. Besides Japan, she has lived in China and South Korea.

Mia Kimura is a Curriculum Consultant at the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE).

Prior to joining SPICE, Mia worked in marketing communications, supporting foreign firms in the Japanese market, and Japanese organizations in the United States. She has also served as Principal at Poppins Active Learning School, an international program for early childhood education in Tokyo. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science from Brown University, and a Master of Business Administration from The Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. She was born in San Francisco and lived in Tokyo for 25 years before returning to the Bay Area.

Mia’s role at SPICE represents the culmination of decades of experience bridging Japanese and American business and social cultures. She also draws from background as an executive coach, defining her role of instructor as an enabler of students’ own curiosity and abilities to question, reflect, and learn.