
Our Committee
StudentsLink Academy is a conglomeration of highly motivated group of individuals, whose personal journeys and experiences have led them to create a safe and integrated portal to enhance education and cultural assimilation worldwide.
Our Vision
Our committee at StudentsLink Academy hope to create a world where there is cross- cultural harmony and understanding, equal access to education here and globally and finally an empowered and holistic tomorrow for the future generation. It's about creating an avenue where our youth have access to the highest levels education and equal employment opportunities. Together we hope to shape a happier world that is better for the planet and for its people.

Belinda Kappe
Chairwoman

Shawn Jiang
Co-Vice President

Shuyun Li
Co-Vice President

Dr. Zhichang Xu
Consultant, Academic Advisor

Gezala Ahmed
Mentorship Program Coordinator

Stan Chang
Consultant, Academic Advisor
Chairwoman
Belinda Kappe
Originally from China, Belinda was born into a family that dealt with education for 3 generations. This has instilled in her a great understanding and life long passion for education which has shaped her career within education.
Belinda completed her Masters Degree in Economics from one of the best humanitarian university in China called the China Remin University in Beijing. She has established and run an educational organization in China for over ten years prior to being a Chinese language teacher in Australia for over eleven years.

Belinda Kappe
Due to her sound educational knowledge and passion, she was promoted to a Manager’s position for over 3 years at two Registered Training Organizations in Australia and helped hundreds pf refugee and migrants find their suitable careers in Australia. During he worked in RTO, she has established a wide network with Matchworks, Wise Employment, AMES Employment, NorthLink etc. Through her work, she has come to realize that a shortage of essential skills can hurt a person’s life in long run.
As a qualified Community Service worker in Australia, Belinda has a big heart and always does her best to help people. Along with her illustrious career in education, she found that energizing young teenagers might be the most economical and efficient way to kick start their success and fulfillment in life. Based on this insight, she established the StudentsLink Academy Inc. in 2017, to provide a safe, secure and high level guide to an on-line learning and cultural building platform for young students from all around the world. The purpose of this organization is motivating and inspiring teenagers so they are job ready in any career. They are provided with training on essential life and work skills such as resume building, growing your own business, developing confidence, building soft skills and more – all through a mentoring program run by student’s link. Through this program she hopes to empower students to have a fulfilling future and she and her team continuously work to enhance the structure and content of this program so it adds more value to the world.
It is worth mentioning that Belinda also has a life long passion for writing and literature, she was a panel member and a member of the organising Committee of the 2011, 2013, 2015 & 2016 Melbourne Chinese Writers Festival. She was also invited as a member of the 2013 World Chinese Writers Association annual conference, the 2014 Oceanian Writers Affiliation conference in Lake Entrance and the 2017 Ancestry Heritage Tour for Overseas Chinese in Shaanxi. This led to her election as the president of Victoria Chinese Author and Writers Association in 2013-2015.
She believes the world will get better with StudentsLink’s ongoing contributions and specialised help, through the mentoring it provides now and as the program grows, much more later.


Co-Vice President
Shuyun Li
Shuyun May Li is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Economics for the University of Melbourne. She obtained her Bachelors degree and Masters degree in 1994 and 1997 respectively at School of Information, Renmin University of China. In 1999 she went to the United States to study at the University of Texas in Austin, and completed her Ph.D. degree in Economics in 2005. She then joined the University of Melbourne in 2005, and has been teaching and doing research with the Faculty since then.
She wishes to devote her passion and experience for teaching to StudentsLink.org, together with other colleagues, helping this organisation become a bridge that connects students in Australia and China.
Co-Vice President
Shawn Jiang
Native of China, Shawn was a chief engineer in a leading motorcycle manufacturing group in China, the Great Yangtze River Group, where he worked in the Research and Development sector for over 10 years. The company was in a joint venture with Suzuki Japan, the international industry leader in design and management standards.
Shawn was later promoted to the Vice General Manager at Maxtra Racing company, and was responsible for the racing machine development, racing team management, competition events operations, commercial advertising promotions and technical sponsorship resources.

Shawn Jiang
Shawns’ high level performance and above par work ethic has seen him work with major brands and partners all across the globe and he has a work history that now spans from Netherlands and Italy to HongKong and Macau. This has instilled him a deep understanding of international relations and cross cultural assimilation.
Shawn migrated to Australia in 2011 and has worked as a Chinese teacher in Melbourne for a few years. This is where his passion for imparting knowledge took root and grew. Shawn’s background in Management and Human Resources coupled with his passion for education and multi cultural experience has led him to co- found a global educational platform in 2015 that looks to educate and bring together students from different cultures and parts of the world creating a safe space for cultural and knowledge exchange. He runs this innovative platform through Students Link, Real Teachers and 3Realmates in various capacities. Fluent in 4 languages, and having worked in multiple countries, he has mastered the art of international communications and people management. This has greatly assisted with bringing this innovative world-wide educational platform to fruition. His expertise is what drives this platform, ensuring the smooth management and running of this interactive and progressive perspective to global education.


Consultant, Academic Advisor
Dr. Zhichang Xu
Dr. Xu Zhichang graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, majoring in English language and literature, majoring in applied linguistics, and PhD majoring in language and cultural education from Perth Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, Australia.
He is currently the director of the International English Department of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a senior lecturer and doctoral tutor; he has worked in universities in Beijing, Perth, Western Australia, and Hong Kong. He is engaged in world English, applied linguistics, cultural linguistics, Teaching and research work in foreign language education and cross-cultural communication.

Dr. Zhichang Xu
Dr. Zhichang Xu published academic works “Chinese English Language Features and Applications”, “Academic Writing Research in Humanities and Education” (co-authored), “Chinese Rhetoric and Teaching Practice” (co-authored), and “Chinese English Research Essays” (editor). He is currently planning to write an academic monograph on “Chinese English: Naming, Normative and Narrative Studies”.
Message for China-Australia Youth International Exchange School: “I hope that China-Australia Youth International Exchange School will make full use of the rich language and cultural resources of China and Australia to carry out extensive and diversified exchanges at multiple levels and in various directions, so as to enhance the understanding and understanding of youth between the two countries. Friendship for a better future for both China and Australia.”
Mentorship Program Coordinator
Gezala Ahmed
Gezala graduated from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia in 2004 where she majored in Mass Communications and Journalism. She also has a degree in Psychology and Economics from Sophia College in Mumbai, India which she completed prior to immigrating to Australia in 2001. She is an expert in the marketing and communication field and also has a long standing passion for teaching.
With over 15 years of experience that has ranged from copy writing and journalism to advertising, marketing and teaching, Gezala has had a well rounded approach and a varied skill set. Her hobby revolves around understanding human interaction, psyche and development and spends much of her time researching how the human brain functions, especially in the formative years of one’s life.

Gezala Ahmed
She is well versed in Jungian philosophy and believes that we humans need holistic growth that caters to all aspects of the body, mind and soul if we are to develop into a progressive society that caters to the well-being of all its citizens. This has greatly assisted her in her career as both a marketer and teacher as she hopes to make the right impact in society by providing the right guidance to its most valuable asset – our children.
“We humans belong to a collective and if we are to build a great society, we have to ensure that our children are well nurtured and looked after. It is a duty of the older generation to pass on all the wisdom they have acquired so our children can benefit the collective and themselves tomorrow.” An innately ‘out of the box’ thinker she is highly empathetic and is a mentor to most of our younger members and as such is a very valuable member of our team.


Consultant, Academic Advisor
Stan Chang
Stan Chang, born in Vietnam, arrived and settled in Australia in early 1980. He completed a Masters Degree of Engineering from the Monash University in 1995. He worked as the Senior Strategic Planning Engineer and retired in 2012 after 27 years with the Victoria Highway Administration.
Stan was the president of the Springvale Asian Business Association Inc for two terms and organised the annual “Springvale Lunar New Year Festival”, which has become one of the most popular community events in the southeast region of Melbourne. He was awarded the Australian Medal for Centenary of Federation in 2001

Stan Chang
Stan also served as the president of the Chinese Poets & Authors Society of Victoria Inc for two terms.
In 2012, the “Australian-New Zealand Chinese Fishing Consolidation Declaration” was published, a historic document by overseas Chinese agencies (Figure 2)
Stan has gone on to publish his first book titled “Testimony of a refugee and boat person – 40 Years after the fall of South Vietnam” in 2015 (Figure 3). He has been the Board Director of the Chinese Museum in Melbourne since 2012.
The two most representative prose writings according to him are “Buddha, Taoism, Confucianism-The Essence of Chinese Culture” and “Yudeng Taishan””, which expounds the author’s breakthrough views and concepts of traditional Chinese culture.
He is also the current Director of Aohua History Museum.