Human Rights activist and North Korean defector, Yeonmi Park, is fast becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. At the 2014 Oslo Freedom Forum and the One Young World Summit in Dublin, she became an international phenomenon, delivering passionate and deeply-personal speeches about the brutality of the North Korean regime. Her address to One Young World on the horrors of detention campus, political executions, and sex trafficking has been viewed over 80 million times on YouTube. Park's escape from North Korea has given the world a window into the lives of its people. The BBC named her one of their Top Global Women. Park grew up in a society devoted to the worship of Dear Leader Kim Jong-il and hatred for enemies of his regime. Park's searing memoir about her escape, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, was released in the fall of 2015. Park has taken it upon herself to tell the story of millions, urging the world to recognize the oppressed people of Kim Jong-un's reign. She will discuss her experience and escape from North Korea.
School of Global Integrative Studies Mon. April 08, 2019
- Week 14: End of Semester Tips
- STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Sarah Vrtiska
- Global Cafe: Coffee with a Diplomat - this Thursday!
- UPC & The Forsythe Family Program Present: Yeonmi Park
- Attend the Free Japan Festival: This Thursday!
- The World in Conversation: Social Representations of Brazilian Rap
- You're Invited: Year End Celebration with Anthropology, Geography and Global Studies!
- Fulbright Information Session: Tomorrow, April 9th
- New Course for Fall 2019: HIST/RELG 180 - Culture, Religion, and Society in Contemporary Asia
- New Fall 2019 Class: RELG 398 Eastern Orthodoxy
- Intern with Programs in English as a Second Language
- Intern in Japan during Spring 2020
- Asian Community & Cultural Center Summer Internships
- Applications for ASUN Student Government due April 12th
- Women's & Gender Studies: Spring 2019 Colloquium - Tomorrow
- Bridging Scholarships to study in Japan for Fall 2019: Due April 10th
- Upcoming Event from Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs - Thursday
- Executive Office of the President: Office of Administration Fall Student Internship Program
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs: Undergraduate Research Fellowship
- Apply for the Washington D.C. Professional Enrichment Academy
- Applications Extended for McNair Scholars Program: Now Due April 22nd
- Apply for the McKelvie Scholarship: Due June 1st