Brantley Turner Bradley
Founder and Managing Director

Originally from New York, Brantley has traveled, lived and worked in China since 1994. Her professional expertise in China - qualitative market research, consumer insights, and marketing - gives her an in-depth understanding of detailed Chinese market trends with a special focus on contemporary Chinese youth. Her work has allowed her to experience both rural and urban China from the local perspective. Most recently, Brantley developed and managed a group to track youth lifestyle shifts and trends for multinational companies operating in China. She has served as a China market advisor to some of world’s most important consumer brands including Nike and Coca-Cola and is regularly invited as a Master of Ceremonies to speak at youth-oriented China marketing conferences. She is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese.

In 2005, Brantley returned to New York. She founded China Prep in 2006.

Brantley is a graduate of Groton School, Groton, MA, and Brown University, Providence, R.I., with a double major in East Asian Studies and Art Semiotics. She holds graduate certificates from The Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China and The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. Brantley is an active alumna of her schools and as the China Area Chair of the Brown University Alumni Schools program, has been awarded two Sapphire Awards for her work interviewing and coordinating recruitment initiatives for prospective undergraduate students.

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A Shanghai native, Ann has worked in a range of consumer industries from import-export to conducting qualitative market research for leading international companies.  She has produced a number of ethnographic films focusing on the challenges and triumphs of modern China. Ann has traveled widely throughout China for both business and pleasure.

Ann is a graduate of Shanghai University with a degree in Business Administration.

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Kelly grew up in Minnesota where she spent her childhood summers attending Norwegian language immersion camp. She later shifted focus to Spanish, working as a counselor in the Spanish immersion program teaching language and culture to K-12 students and spending a semester abroad in Cuba.

Kelly's fascination with China began during her undergraduate years at Yale University, where she majored in history and began her study of Mandarin. Outside of class, Kelly served on the Executive Committee of Yale's Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and regularly volunteered in New Haven public school bilingual classrooms.

After graduation, Kelly received a Yale-China Teaching Fellowship, which sent her to teach English at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China.
During her two-year fellowship, she continued to study Mandarin, dabbled in Cantonese, and traveled throughout mainland China and Southeast Asia.

Upon her return to the United States, Kelly worked in non-profit program management with Metro International. In her role as Coordinator of the Global Classroom program, she prepared international students to teach about their home countries and cultures in New York City public schools.

Ashley was born in New York City and at the age of eight moved to Asia where she spent the next ten years living in Hong Kong and Singapore. It was this early childhood experience in Asia that inspired her interest in all things China.

Ashley graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in China Studies, and received her Master's degree from Harvard University in Regional Studies- East Asia. She spent the summer after graduation co-authoring a project at the Harvard Business School on labor in China. Ashley moved back to New York City where she spent a few months working at the Asia Society in both the external affairs and the business programs offices. She also tutors Chinese as a second language to elementary and high school students.

Ashley has traveled throughout China many times as an elementary school student when she first saw the Great Wall, a middle school student when she bicycled throughout southern China, a high school student when she had her first study abroad language course and as an undergraduate and graduate student when she traveled independently throughout China.

Originally from Montreal, Adam is a 2008 graduate of the Albany Academies in Albany, New York. He currently attends Williams College in northwestern Massachusetts and is pursuing studies mainly in Asian Studies, Political Science, and Economics. His first exposure to China began with AFS International in 2005-06 when Adam stayed with a host family for 11 months in Nanjing, China. While in China, Adam taught at New Oriental and attended a local Chinese high school. Active in Williams Model United Nations, Adam won best delegate and friendship awards at the Beijing conference in 2006 and was the co-head of the club while at the Albany Academies. In addition to his excellent Mandarin Chinese, Adam is active in the Chinese American Student Organization at Williams, and is an Editor of the Williams Record.

In his free time Adam enjoys playing rugby, practicing his Chinese, and making videos. His role at China Prep during the summer of 2007 focused on making ethnographic videos on Chinese youth culture. His videos are viewable at http://www.chinaprep.com/video.html. During the summer of 2008, Adam was on the ground in Beijing working for China Prep, and kept a blog of his activities (www.chinaprepblog.com). Adam stays active with China Prep by assisting with marketing initiatives.