Nancy Chou is an educator, consultant, and founder of the Third Space Collaborative. She works with clients and partners to make the third space concept a reality in classrooms and schools around the world. An expert in capacity-building, she enables institutions, educators, and students to develop, implement, and engage in programming that empowers students to connect life and learning. Through her consulting services, she has worked with organizations that have included the LAUSD, the Smithsonian, the Field Museum, and the California Academy of Science. Recently, her work has focused on developing design thinking programming in collaboration with educators and social designers. Nancy has been a consultant since 2006, where her work with educators and organizations has led her from Tanzania to Chile to San Francisco and points in between.
Formerly, Nancy taught middle school Language Arts and Journalism in the Pico Union area of Los Angeles. She was also the Associate Director of the East Bay Consortium, a non-profit providing academic enrichment and mentoring programs for Oakland youth. She received her M.Ed from UCLA and her BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley.