April 9 Speaker Luncheon

Novato Republican Women
present

Ann Hsu,
Founder Bert Hsu Academy

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

$32 Members | $37 Guests

Marin Country Club 

Our Speaker:  

Ann HsuAnn Hsu, A San Francisco resident and a Chinese American immigrant wha has lived and worked in both the U.S. and China, is the founder and co-leader of the Bert Hsu Academy. This non-profit K-12 school is a new educational model providing quality foundational, bicultural and character education. The Academy opened in the fall of 2023 and provides an educational alternative for San Francisco and Bay Area parents seeking quality, rigorous, affordable, and bicultural education for their children. The target is to expand to 50,000 students nationwide within ten years.

Anne's mission was fueled during the pandemic as she and other concerned parents pushed back on SFUSD's failing schools, due to the deteriorating quality of education, indoctrination in education, attacks on merit, and its focus on politics instead of education. This pushback eventually let to the recall of three school board members in early 2022.

Hsu served as Chair of the SFUSD Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee, as President of the Galileo High School PTSA, and was appointed by San Francisco's mayor to serve on the school board where she gained first-hand knowledge of how the public schools function. An entrepreneur in the technology and consumer products industries, Ann let her own companies in both Silicon Valley and China. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University, an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from UC Berkeley.