(。•̀ᴗ-)✧ I was born in South Korea, and raised all across the continental U.S. from Maine, Delaware, Kansas, and eventually Georgia.
I am Korean, American, and a proud, queer Asian-American.
Design as a Vehicle for Change
I'm interested in building products that critically question technology and who its accessible to. I am always striving to build mindfully for underrepresented groups and to ultimately combine design, technology, and advocacy to tackle important and challenging social problems.

As an artist, I have a huge passion for visual craft and how to creatively express compelling stories.

I received my BS in Industrial Design from Georgia Tech in August 2021. I'm currently doing my Master's in Industrial Design and working in research around public health misinformation, political news consumption, and civic engagement!
Things I Care About
I'm passionate about social equity advocacy, public interest technology, and voting access. Outside of my design work, you can find me volunteering at the ACLU of Georgia, where I currently work as LEAD Volunteer, and where I was a previous Voting Access intern.
In my free time, I recently started to volunteer at my local county as a poll worker during elections.

I spent a gap semester in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic as a Civic Digital Fellow at the NIH where I got to learn about Civic Tech and help the NIH with their
STRIDES initiative.
Me and all the other amazing CDF Fellows from 2020. :,)
Other Things I Do

You can find me researching at the Technologies + International Development Lab under Dr. Michael Best, where I do work in investigating health misinformation and digital outreach strategies amongst Black and Latinx communities in GA.

I previously led my school's Hack4Impact design team, where we build web apps for non-profit clients. Since then, I have led 2 cohorts of our Design Bootcamp, where we teach students the basics of digital product design and help them put together a case study for their portfolio.
Outside My Work

I love going to museums and drawing outside of work.

I also love watching documentaries and learning about queer history. :^)

What I'm Listening To

Experience
Product Design Intern
CNN
Audio and Video (AV Club) Team
Present
Graduate Researcher
Georgia Institute of Technology
Technologies + International Development (TID) Lab
2021 - Present
Pursuing MS in Design
Georgia Institute of Technology
Industrial and Product Design
2021 - Present
UX Research Intern
CNN
Digital Research
2022
Design Bootcamp Instructor
Bits of Good
Design Bootcamp
2021 - 2022
Director of Design
Hack4Impact
2021
Product Designer
Social Income
2021
Associate Director of Design
Bits of Good
2020
Product Designer
Bits of Good
2019 - 2020
Design Intern
NFANT Labs
2018
UX Design Intern
Home Depot
Asset Protection
2021 - Present
UX Designer
BestFit, Inc.
2020 - Present
Voter Access Intern
ACLU of GA
Voter Access Project
2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology
Design for Interactive Environments
2021 - 2022
UX Design Intern
Intel Corporation
Client Computing, Research & Experience Definition, Project Athena
2021
Director of Design
Bits of Good
2020 - 2021
Civic Digital Design Fellow
National Institutes of Health
2020
Civic Digital Fellow
Coding It Forward
2020
Graphic Web Designer
Georgia Institute of Technology
Nunn School of International Affairs
2019 - 2020
Honors & Speaking
Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and the Allied Arts
Georgia Institute of Technology Rho Chapter
2023

Grace Hopper 2022 Speaker - Civic Tech
AnitaB.org Grace Hopper Celebration
2022

Research Workshop Presentation
International Conference on Web and Social Media - Cyber Social Threats
2022

Faculty Merit Award for Best Research
GT School of Industrial Design
2022

GT Design Club Design Internship Panel Talk
GT Design Club
2021

Civic Digital Fellowship Alumni Panel
Coding It Forward
2021

Highest Honors
Georgia Institute of Technology
2021

Civic Digital Fellow
Coding It Forward
2020

President's Undergraduate Research Award
Georgia Institute of Technology
2020

Horizons Hackathon - Best in Show
HackGT
2020