Mina is an alumni MA Development Studies student at IDS. She is from Taiwan and has lived and worked in Israel and Tanzania. She majored in engineering with a focus on renewable energy and minored in sociology for her bachelors. Her experiences and interests cover inequality and poverty, human rights, consumerism, and renewable energy in development.
She is founder and director of the Humanity Research Consultancy (HRC), a social enterprise, which aims to be the first development consultancy firm that consists predominantly of consultants from the Global South. Currently, HRC has established networked connections of consultants in over 50 countries.
HRC’s involvement with IDS includes the partnership on involves working on the Participatory Research on Reintegration in Bangladesh and Cambodia, with a focus on the reintegration of trafficked persons.
