Faith Pan

Faith Pan entered the University of California, San Diego to study Molecular and Cell Biology after the 2025 Futuremakers summer. Alongside a pre-med interest, she brought a longstanding enthusiasm for Chinese literature, translation, and the relationship between culture and community. She joined Futuremakers to learn how individual interests could become projects serving a wider audience.

Her independent project, The Translation Initiative, created a website for exploring Chinese intangible cultural heritage through research, translation, and visual material. The project addressed barriers faced by heritage learners and people without Chinese fluency, including inconsistent translations and hard-to-find information about traditional arts and practices.

Faith shifted attention toward written posts when sourcing strong visuals proved difficult. Her summer also included community-organization experience and conversations with civic leaders. She hoped the initiative could eventually expand across additional languages and help readers form deeper cross-cultural connections.