Sarah is a senior at Northwestern University, pursuing a double major in journalism and political science. She is researching the behavior and psychology behind why elite leaders make costly decisions. She studied with Professor Yoon Young-kwan, South Korea’s former Foreign Minister, at Seoul National University, where she became interested in Korean affairs, the great power competition, nuclear proliferation, and irrationality.

Previously, she worked at the People for Successful Corean Reunification (PSCORE) in Seoul, South Korea as a research and video intern, where she helped write a statement for the 2024 Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Switzerland. She also helped produce a four-episode interview series called Disabled in North Korea, featuring North Korean defectors who endured human rights violations.

She was also a podcast intern at Foreign Policy Magazine in Washington D.C., where she assisted in producing episodes for FP Studios’ various podcasts, most notably Counterpoint and the State of Seed. Some of the episodes she assisted with include Should the U.S. Completely Decouple From China?; Did the Dayton Accords Set Bosnia Up for Failure?; and How Cary Fowler Co-Founded the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

At Northwestern, Sarah was a research assistant for various labs across campus. She was a research fellow through the Buffett Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, where she researched the Western news coverage of North Korea. She also was a climate finance research assistant at Northwestern’s department of political science, where she analyzed UNFCCC ted expert dialogue transcripts.

Last year, Sarah attended the Seoul Forum on North Korean Human Rights in Seoul, South Korea. As the current Daily Press Coordinator at HRNK, she hopes to bring awareness to the human rights situation in North Korea by sharing current news to as many people as possible.