Driven by this belief, at age 27 she joined the Humanistic Education Foundation, the first NGO in Taiwan to advocate educational reforms. The decade that she was with the HEF was a busy time for educational reforms in Taiwan and it laid for her a foundation in social activism.
因為這樣的信念，27 歲的她加入台灣第一個倡導教育改革的人本教育基金會一待就是 10 年，並參與了台灣教改浪潮風起雲湧的階段。