About

Me

3rd Culture Kid - born in South Korea and raised all across the continental U.S. CUrrently living in Washington dc.  ᕕ(︶‿︶)ᕗ
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chronic overplanner
reading enthusiast
NUMTOT
chronic overplanner
reading enthusiast
NUMTOT
chronic overplanner
reading enthusiast
NUMTOT
chronic overplanner
reading enthusiast
always nosy
chronic overplanner
reading enthusiast
NUMTOT
Background

I received my BS in Industrial Design from Georgia Tech in 2021. Originally interested in design because of my passion for art, I came to love understanding how people interact with design and how it could help those around me as a tool for public interest. In trying to understand how design could better enable the communities around me, I became a hybrid-researcher and designer. My design and design research background has always been a blend of the creative and technical, but I am at my core a people-focused researcher and designer.

I graduated with my MS in Industrial Design in December 2023. During my time in grad school, I worked in academic and professional research around public health misinformation, political news consumption, and civic engagement. (ツ゚)

Things I Care About

I'm passionate about social equity advocacy, public interest technology, and voting access. Outside of my research and design work, I previously spent a year at the ACLU of GA on their Voter Access Project helping to track voting issues across the state, implement program infrastructure and manage LEAD (Local Advocates and Election Defenders) volunteers, revamp the ACLU of GA poll worker resources, as well as reach out to voters and help people vote at their local precincts. I also helped organize and volunteered at Georgia Tech's early voting precinct during the Georgia 2022 Midterms. I then continued on as a volunteer on their LEAD program. In my free time, I also volunteer as a poll worker in my home county!

My interest in civic tech began when I spent a gap semester in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic as a Civic Digital Fellow at the NIH to help with their STRIDES initiative. Interested in learning more about bringing tech talent to the government? I highly recommend checking out coding it forward. :)
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Other Things I've Done

I spent 2 years conducting research at the Technologies + International Development Lab under Dr. Michael Best at Georgia Tech, where I did work in investigating health misinformation and digital outreach strategies amongst Black and Latine communities in GA. I previously led the Bits of Good design team with Stephanie He, where we built web apps for non-profit clients. Since then, I have led 2 cohorts of our Design Bootcamp with Joyce Shen and Simon Zhang. The Bits of Good Design Bootcamp is a free, student-led program that teaches students the basics of digital product design + research and helps them put together a case study for their portfolio.

Outside of Work

Outside of my work, I love going to museums, drawing, reading books, and junk journaling. I'm also a big public transit enthusiast (proud car-less person who takes the DC metro everywhere) and love learning about the history of the transit systems in the cities I visit. d(・∀・○)

What I'm Reading

The Tainted Teacup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Superstructures (Notes on Experimental Jetset / Volume 2)
Economics for the Common Good by Jean Tirole
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
What I'm listening to
Experience
Graduate Researcher
Georgia Tech TID Lab
2021 - 2023
Product Designer
CNN
Present
UX Research Intern
ServiceNow
2023
Product Design Intern
CNN
2023
UX Research Intern
CNN
2022
Voter Access Intern
ACLU of GA
2022
UX Design Intern
Home Depot
2021 - 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Georgia Tech
2021 - 2022
Peer Mentor
GT Interactive Product Design Lab
2021 - 2022
UX DESign Intern
Intel
2021
Director of Design
Hack4Impact
2021
Product Designer
Social Income
2021
Design Bootcamp Instructor
Bits of Good
2021 - 2022
Director of Design
Bits of Good
2020 - 2021
UX Designer
BestFit
2020 - 2022
Civic Digital Design Fellow
National Institutes of Health
2020
UndergRaduate Researcher
GT Interactive Product Design Lab
2020
Product Designer
Bits of Good
2019 - 2020
Web Designer
Georgia Tech
2019 - 2020
Graphic Design Intern
NFANT Labs
2019
honors and Speaking
Global Intern Hackathon Winner
ServiceNow
2023
Tau Sigma Delta hOnor Society in Architecture and the Allied Arts
Georgia Tech Rho Chapter
2023
Grace Hopper 2022 Civic Tech Speaker
AnitaB.org
2023
Research Workshop Presentation
International Conference on Web & Social media - Cyber Social Threats
2022
Faculty merit Award for best Research
Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design
2022
Design Internship Panelist
Georgia Tech Design Club
2021
Highest Honors
Georgia Tech BSID
2021
Civic Digital Fellow
Coding It Forward
2020
President's Undergraduate Research Award
Georgia Tech
2020
Horizons Hackathon Winner
HackGT
2020