Joseph C. Buchman Email & Phone Number

Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea

I teach English-language international development courses to Korean university students. My courses combine ESL teaching methodology with a Western format, enhancing students' research and critical thinking skills while internationalizing their education.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conduct deep research, design compelling, actionable project proposals for increasing dissemination of information on North Korean human rights issue to policymakers, thought leaders.
• Write original, innovative content for online publication (www.nkhiddengulag.org, www.hrnk.org); work referenced by NKHR thought leaders.
• Edit HRNK publication materials (more than 30 book summaries blog posts, reports) to highest standards.
• Translate/transcribe Korean language newspaper articles, interviews, congressional testimonies (more than 25 items to-date) on tight deadlines to deliver outstanding English language texts to donors.
• Reinvented, simplified donor outreach mailing program to reduce outreach costs by 50%.
• Plan and manage successful conferences, events for foreign diplomats, military leaders, government officials.

Korean to English translator for wide variety of academic materials.

Asia

• Turned a life-long big-picture dream into reality by riding a bicycle unsupported over 11,000 miles through 15 countries from Thailand to Turkey to fundraise ($3000) for North Korean refugee rescues.
• Sought out opportunities, forged relationships with people of diverse nationalities to raise awareness of North Korea human rights issue through presentations at schools, businesses, and non-profits.
• Volunteered with grassroots educational, environmental, and social awareness non-profit organizations in three countries as a teacher, farmer, builder, filmographer.
• Designed, developed, managed content for project website utilizing JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Google Maps API.
• Built portfolio of compelling travel photography, created successful photography website, shakyimages.tumblr.com.
• Inspired several others to embark on long-distance fundraising bicycle adventures of their own.

• Managed complex logistics, worked under tight deadlines, for extremely long hours in potentially dangerous conditions to rescue more than 40 North Korean refugees.
• Strategized, coordinated with stakeholders in three countries to refine high-quality rescue program that doubled refugee rescue rate from previous year.
• Took initiative to design, implement standardized operations protocol, training materials to ensure program stability, continuity.
• Conducted (in Korean) critical refugee interviews, surveys about life inside North Korea, China, escape route, sexual assault/violence, post-resettlement goals as part of M&E, data-gathering, post-resettlement services.

University Of Washington

• Project manager for more than one dozen successful events (scholarly colloquia, academic conferences, artistic performances) ranging in attendance from ten to several hundred people, supervising between one and five.
• Coordinated, supervised fifteen other translators, participated in successful dissertation translation project with top-ranked Seoul National University; produced high-quality translations of fifteen Korean social.
• Managed logistics for J-1/B-1/F-1 visas, housing, stipends, honorariums for international scholars.
• Designed, wrote, edited CKS and Journal of Korean Studies publications, correspondence, newsletters.

University Of Washington, Seattle

Mentored and tutored international students from Japan and South Korea with the goal of assisting them in adapting to life in the United States and the American-style educational environment.

Suseong-gu, Daegu, Korea

• English conversation instructor to students in various departments, including tourism, nursing, marketing, and computer programming.
• Taught both general English conversation classes as well as field-specific higher level courses.

Seongsan High School, Daegu, South Korea

Developed own curriculum, employing multimedia as well as task-based learning in conversation classes with first and second year high school students. Collaborated to create an English Village, produced by our students, which appeared in the local Daegu news.

Dalseo-gu, Daegu, Korea

Taught English conversation to elementary and middle school students.

Dalseo-gu, Daegu, Korea

Taught English conversation to elementary and middle school students.

St. Louis, Missouri

Collaborated on a project whose goal wasto preserve 19th and early 20th century US governmentand military documents.

Mais Korea Studies, International Studies

Activities and Societies: Students for Korea Studies at the UW, Webmaster North Korea Study Group, Event Organizer, Presenter Center for.

Certificate In International Development, International Development

I researched online education in developing countries and created a plan of action for a visiting scholar wishing to use online education.

Korean Language

As the 2011 recipient of the Korean Language Immersion Grant from the University of Washington, my Korean language ability was too.

Korean Language

Test of Proficiency in Korean Language level 4 course.

Korean Language

Test of Proficiency in Korean levels 1 and 2 courses.

Bfa, Photography

I studied fine art, focusing on photography and graphic design. Major projects included a documentary collaboration with an inner city St..