Meixi is interested in how education systems can heal our relationships with lands, waters, and each other, instead of being a source of trauma and dispossession for communities.

Her work involves uncovering stories, upholding family knowledge systems, and building collectives that advance more just and sustainable ways of living.

Meixi’s Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Human Development explores this in the context of Indigenous education in Thailand, and is largely driven and informed by her childhood experiences with the Lahu community.

Prior to her Ph.D., Meixi taught at NorthLight school and Shuqun Secondary, and was part of the Redes de Tutoría in the Mexican Ministry of Education to transform Mexico’s “failing” 9000 schools in the country through a pedagogy called Tutoría. Meixi collaborated with the national team to build a network of schools that shared learning and improved instructional practice at scale. In Mexico, she explored how schools healed broken communities from the inside out through a radical new way of teaching and learning, called “relación tutora” – that is, by changing the human relationships in the classroom.

Every day she gained deep insights about educational policy and how to bring educational change to her part of the world. Since then, she founded FiftyFold in Singapore and Thailand as an extension of that very work in Mexico. She continues to expand this educational model and learning network across the Pacific to Southeast Asia and has been working to co-design learning spaces with teachers and students in public schools.

She is Director of Research and Strategy at FiftyFold to focus on research and implementation strategy in Southeast Asia. Meixi is a Redes de Tutoría board member and continues to laise with the Tutoría teams in Mexico, Chile, and Nigeria.