Born and raised in China, Eva has been living on Harvard campus since summer 2021 with her husband Yi (Harvard Kennedy School & Harvard Law School) and their son, Kuankuan. Eva graduated from Xi'an Art Academy with a degree in Landscape Design and has worked with Yi on producing various film projects. She co-founded IFChina, the nations's first non-profit engaging citizens to document their social memories through file, oral history, photography, theraer and murals. Eva also started the What's For Dinner WeChat platform, which eventually led to the founding of the Good Food Fund, now a leading organziation in China's food systems transformation.

Additinally, she was on the team that organized the 2019 Food Forward Forum at Yale, Harvard, UMass, UConn, Cluinary Institute of America and Google New York. Eva has lived and worked as a publicaiton editor in a 1700-year-old Buddhist monastery for two years. She is a vegetarian, loves good food, the nature, and art.