Education

New York University
• MA Journalism, Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program (Dec 2024)
• BA Philosophy, NYU Abu Dhabi (Jun 2023); semesters abroad in NY, DC and Accra, Ghana

Journalism

News Intern, Scientific American
New York (Jan 2025 – Present)
• Pitch, report, and write news stories for web and print
• Help produce Spellements, SciAm's spelling puzzle game

Editorial Intern, Scholastic
New York (May 2024 – Dec 2024)
• Write and edit print and online articles on science and math topics for elementary and middle school students
• Participate in weekly meetings to plan story ideas, teaching materials, and social media for future issues
• Assist in filming, writing, and compiling lesson materials for teachers
• Created archives of vocabulary glossaries, teaching materials, and games from past issues

Graphics Editor, Scienceline
New York (Dec 2023 – Nov 2024)
• Wrote online articles on theoretical physics, chemistry, and applied mathematics
• Designed, illustrated, and animated visual aids for staff articles
• Renovated interface designs for improved user experience to the newsletter and the website
• Provided artistic direction for project featuring an interactive map of NYC

Science Policy Reporter, Innovation Policy News
Remote (Feb 2022 – Jun 2022)
• Wrote, reported, and edited online news stories on U.S. science, technology, and health policy

Newsroom Intern, Voice of America
Remote (May 2020 – Aug 2020)
• Spearheaded coverage of East Asia for Polygraph.info, VOA’s international politics department
• Provided audio narration for feature about security legislation in Hong Kong

Managing Editor, VO1SS
London, UK and Tokyo, Japan/Remote (Apr 2019 – Dec 2019)
• Managing editor for media startup offering career guidance to 4000+ international students
• Conducted outreach and published weekly articles on 30+ international students and professionals in English, Korean and Japanese
• Hosted Search Engine Optimization sessions for 20 staff writers, increasing pageviews by 15%

Research

Research and Editorial Intern, American Enterprise Institute
Washington, DC (Jan 2020 – May 2020)
• Edited and prepared resident scholar blog posts for the CMS and social media content
• Researched and wrote questions for podcast on technological innovation and economic policy

Research Assistant, New York University
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Department of Social Science
(Nov 2021 – May 2022)
• Assist with research projects regarding topics such as urban studies, race, class, or citizenship.
• Copy edited publication manuscripts authored by university professors
Teaching, Learning and Development Lab
(Feb 2019 – Nov 2019)
• Completed the CITI Program training for ethical research
• Assisted in the creation of coded data and transcriptions of videos studying mother-child behavior

Honors

• Global Leadership Scholar (2020, United Arab Emirates)
• Citizen Ambassador for Fair Trade, Beautiful Coffee (2016, South Korea)
• Foreign Minister’s Award for Excellence in Oration, United Nations (2015, South Korea)