Cleo(Anqi) Wang

👋 Shaped by 14 diverse organizations across education, tech, and media

A passionate, resilient, and ever-curious designer who has walked through 14 organizations by the age of 27, searching not just for a career, but for a calling.

Those work, par-time jobs, internships became my mirror:
in marketing, I learned how ideas move people.
In EdTech, I saw how learning transforms them.

These diverse experiences didn’t just shape my skills.
They shaped my values.
They made me unshakably rooted in the EdTech space—where education meets empathy, systems meet stories, and design meets transformation.

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🎯 From internships to intention 

I started in marketing, learning how brands speak to hearts and minds. But it was in education that I discovered a deeper art: persuading people into learning—not with ads, but with meaning.

Instructional design, to me, is the marketing of ideas, the storytelling of learning.
It’s where learning theory, behavioral science, UX thinking, and creativity come together to move people forward.

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💼 Now, I design learning at Columbia University.

For nearly 1.5 years, I’ve created learning experiences that span formats:

• Instructor-led, asynchronous, hybrid

• eLearning modules, AI literacy, STEM workshops

• LMS content + onboarding systems

But more than content, I design the learner’s journey—their friction, flow, and flourishing.

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🤖 And I look forward: to AI, systems, and innovation

I’ve built microlearning sessions on GenAI at Columbia, and I continue to explore how emerging tech can make education more personal, more scalable, more human.

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🧠 My Design Philosophy

I believe instructional design is where technology meets compassion.
It’s where we help people not just understand—but grow.
And to design for growth, we must be growing too.