I’m a Korean-American writer and filmmaker.
My stories explore characters who straddle seemingly disparate communities in the United States. They are informed by my experience of navigating between worlds, including first and later generation American dynamics, Asian and American identities, female identity in male-dominated environments, and technical and artistic personalities in Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
My experiences as one of the few female engineers at UC Berkeley, Pixar, and NASA, and as a first-generation immigrant, have given me much insight into the challenges one faces as a minority.
I believe filmmakers have a unique opportunity to provoke thought and engender empathy through storytelling. My goal is to continue telling stories that feature characters from underrepresented, minority communities whose experiences I share.
I earned B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and M.S. in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. After an internship at Pixar and five years as a computer scientist at NASA, I left Silicon Valley to pursue filmmaking full-time.
I’m an alumna of the USC School of Cinematic Arts MFA Program, Black List Feature Lab, Norton Island Residency, Almanack Screenwriters October Colony, and WGA Writers Access Support Staff Training Program. I wrote and produced JACK AND LOU: A GANGSTER LOVE STORY, a fiction audio drama series starring Lisa Kudrow in the lead role. I’m also one of the writers on the feature film based on the same story. I worked as a showrunner’s assistant on “Watson” (CBS). As a Gold House Producers Accelerator fellow, I shadowed producer Nina Yang Bongiovi on Lucky Lu (2025 Cannes Film Festival). I recently served as an associate producer on an upcoming feature film, Bedford Park.