Sona Farid-Arbab has a BA in architecture from the University of East London, a master of art in the history of Chinese education from Beijing Normal University (Beijing Shi Fan Da Xue), and a PhD in the philosophy of education from the Institute of Education of the University of London. More recently she has been serving as an advisor to the Moral Education Research Center at the Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences. She currently resides in San Diego and is assisting several organizations with the elaboration of educational material.