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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Teaching a course entitled “Countering Authoritarianism in Asia” in the Democracy and Governance Program in Georgetown’s Government Department starting Spring 2024.

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Advising on Pacific Forum’s human rights related work in Asia.

Publish a twice monthly column on the intersection of international human rights challenges and national security issues.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Led every aspect of the Washington, D.C. office, including setting the policy agenda, managing staff and vendors, advising the Board of Directors, setting advocacy goals for the Hill and executive branch, and building mission-aligned coalitions. Produced CFHK's seminal paper, A Policy Roadmap to Support the Hong Kong People.Hosted and organized several events, including one on deteriorating religious freedom in Hong Kong featuring Hudson Senior Fellow, Nury Turkel, spoke at an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to launch the Policy Roadmap, and organized an event featuring three of the eight Hong Kongers targeted with bounties by the Hong Kong government.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Researched, wrote, and published short- and medium-length research papers on policy topics, including backsliding democracy in Hong Kong, tackling Uyghur forced labor, religious freedom as a foreign policy priority, the need for an atrocity determination for Uyghurs, responding to COVID-19 in China and Southeast Asia, and other subjects.Testified before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on the plight of Uyghurs in 2021. Testified before the Asia Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Rohingya crisis in 2020, testified before the same committee on human rights challenges in Southeast Asia in 2019, and testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Priority-2 refugee status for Uyghurs and Hongkongers in 2021.Briefed the former Secretary of State on genocide and crimes against humanity facing Uyghurs, the Assistant Secretary (East Asia & Pacific Affairs) on human rights violations in China, and various members of the National Security Council on backsliding democracy in Burma and Cambodia, human rights in China, and other subjects.Commentary appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Vox, The National Review, and other notable nationally syndicated publications.Hosted new Heritage podcast, China Uncovered, highlighting the Chinese Communist Party’s lack of transparency on a range of issues including economic and finance, security, and human rights issues.Presented on a wide range of human rights and national security-related issues for events at The Heritage Foundation, The Council on Foreign Relations, and The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, among others.

Specializes in the intersection of human rights and national security issues. Publishes short, medium, and long-term papers on human rights challenges in North Korea, the Rohingya crisis, democratic backsliding in Cambodia, and threats to freedom in China, among other subjects. Research work also covers human trafficking, refugees, religious freedom, and other social issues in Asia. Presents before international and domestic audiences. Traveled to Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan to give presentations on human rights challenges in Asia. Presented at the Stimson Center, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, among other entities.Traveled to Singapore for the Trump-Kim Summit in June 2018 to do media for the Heritage Foundation. Appear regularly on BBC News, CNN, Fox, Sky News, VOA, and other media outlets. Quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, USA Today, and others print publications.Meet with and brief government officials from the U.S. Department of State, the National Security Council, and USAID, among other entities.

Specializes in human rights, transnational criminal issues, religious freedom, and social issues in Asia. Conducts research and publishes Backgrounders on human trafficking in Asia, drug trafficking in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, and social issues in China, among other things. Consistently publishes on North Korea human rights issues, demographic challenges in China, and religious persecution in South and Southeast Asia.Published on Forbes, Newsweek, The Diplomat, Real Clear World, and The National Interest etc.Presented on human trafficking in Asia, religious freedom in South Asia, ISIS genocide, and the role of religious freedom in refugee policy, among other topics. Attended conferences in Seoul, South Korea, participated in a 10-day research trip through the Japanese Embassy, The Kakehashi Project, in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, and was a part of the TECRO-led 2015 East Coast U.S. Youth Leaders to the Republic of China (Taiwan) delegation in Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Presented on religious freedom and refugee policy at the APRFF religious freedom conference in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Presented on technology's role for improving anti-trafficking efforts at the 2016 International Workshop on Strategies for Combating Human Traffficking in Taipei, Taiwan.

Provided research assistance to the Director of Asian Studies Center and other Senior Fellows at The Heritage Foundation. Conducted research on a variety of regions in Asia, including topics in human rights, human trafficking, transnational crime, and religious freedom, among other issues.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Co-founded group for young, Asia policy professionals for the purpose of vision-casting for the future of Asia policy.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Penn Kemble Forum on Democracy promotes bipartisan conversation among young foreign policy leaders in Washington, DC. The Forum is an opportunity for them to share ideas across sectors and explore the role of democracy and human rights within the context of a broad range of policy questions.

Master’S Degree, Asian Studies

Summer Special Program 2016 At The Korean Language Institute

Undertook five weeks of Korean language study

General Government

Activities and Societies: Patrick Henry College British Parliamentary Debate Team, Libertas Society, Student Activities Planning.

Education record

Earned 15 credit hours in the German Language