Minji Ko Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Seoul, South Korea

Singing Beetle's mission is to provide a healthy and inclusive network and infrastructure to K-pop musicians.I am supporting a project to produce the world's first K-pop idol group that includes North Korean refugees, aiming to break cultural barriers and amplify voices from marginalized communities.

New York

• Developed and implemented the communications and outreach strategy to address the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeeping personnel, including its social media campaign, #HonouringOurValues.• Created day-to-day content for a social media campaign, including quote cards and short form videos.• Drafted and cleared proactive lines for Noon Briefing and responded to media queries regarding the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel.• Supported redesigning a Risk Management Toolkit to prevent and address misconduct in UN Peacekeeping including sexual exploitation and abuse by providing design/editing support.

New York, New York, United States

• Supported implementing communication strategy for 2021 Peacekeeping Ministerial Seoul by coordinating with multiple UN Secretariat Departments and Member States. Organized an exhibit to show the history and future agenda of UN Peacekeeping.• Led a collaborative media campaign by creating advocacy materials, including quote cards, videos, and infographics.• Conducted media monitoring to keeps abreast with key stakeholders, policy makers, opinion leaders (public/private), and media.

New York, New York, United States

• Led digital campaign for a High Level Meeting and produced videos of good practices in support of the meeting.

New York, United States

• Co-authored a policy report on examining the role of the United Nations Combatting Racism and Discrimination• Conducted a case study on discrimination against LGBTI individuals and UN's actions to address such discrimination • Contributed to gender mainstreaming of the report by examining Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

New York, United States

• Formulated external communication materials, including blog posts, weekly/quarterly newsletters and daily web contents• Conducted a diversity and inclusion audit on communication materials of its academic programs• Conducted a stakeholder mapping and maintained +1,000 contact base to build organizational relationships • Administered over +10 social media channels using Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

•Designed structures of Climate:RedSummit, a virtual summit that ran for 30 consecutive hours in four languages. Liaised with youth climate activists to speak at high level plenary sessions and developed background papers on relevant themes.• Liaised with over 200 session hosts coming from over 150 national societies, and reviewed over 200 session proposals and provided feedback and guidance.• Hosted 5 capacity building workshops in 4 languages for session hosts in order to support workshop design and facilitation.• Organized and designed a session Leaving no-one behind - LGBTQ+ in responses to climate disasters to highlight vulnerability of LGBTQ+ population in climate disasters.

New York, United States

• Supported organization’s engagement with the United Nations including the 64th Commission on the Status of Women as an NGO in consultative status with ECOSOC• Facilitated cooperation with relevant civil society communities including NGO CSW/NY and Working Group on Girls• Compiled and systemized recent data relating to women’s economic empowerment to be disseminated to stakeholders, including donors, grantees and board members• Structured a high level SDG engagement plan and drafted advocacy strategies for ILO convention

Songpa-Gu, Seoul, Korea

• Administered $500k female vocational training project in Lao PDR as a monitoring and evaluation agent • Conducted a feasibility study for a female vocational training project in Northern Bangladesh through Focus Group Interview and surveys that featured over 500 participants• Structured gender mainstreaming training and organized 3 trainings for +50 government officers from 7 low income countries where +20 government level projects were developed • Analyzed +30 gender project proposals that were submitted from low-income countries • Took charge of writing +10 project proposals that attracted total $1 million • Structured overseas communication strategies including UN ECOSOC

Seoul, South Korea

∙ Organized an international conference on education in emergency situations∙ Assisted in developing fundraising strategies to address global poverty

Vienna, Austria

• Facilitated inter-governmental projects as the point of contact• Spearheaded surveys on women’s vocational safety and welfare which was distributed to +150 countries• Co-authored social media contents that attracted +12k engagements

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, Development Practice

Activities and Societies: Social Director, SPECTRUM Event Chair, Korea FocusSpecialization: Gender and Public Policy Technology, Media.

Bachelor’S Degree, History, International Relations And Affairs

Exchange Student, History And Politics