EunSook Lee, Executive Director, oversees all NAKASEC programs and policy work and is responsible for program planning, development and evaluation, fundraising & grant writing, media & publicity, board communications and financial management. She is the former executive director of Korean American Women In Need, a bilingual domestic violence service agency in Chicago and Station Manager at CKLN Radio, Inc. in Toronto, Canada. Currently, EunSook is on the board of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific Community Development, National Immigration Forum, and APIA Vote! In 2006, she was confirmed to the Los Angeles City Board of Neighborhood Commission.

Becky Okhee Bae, Immigrant Rights Project Program Associate, assists with planning and implementing all activities and campaigns related to NAKASEC’s Immigrant Rights Project. Working closely with the Executive Director, Immigrant Rights Project Coordinator, and NAKASEC affiliates, Becky focuses primarily on local advocacy and outreach to immigrant communities on issues affecting equal education and employment , builds and maintains relationships with local immigrant rights coalitions, and assists with the publication of relevant public education materials and media efforts related to the project . Prior to joining the NAKASEC staff in August 2007, Becky interned at both the New York State Human Rights Division and Chicago Transit Authority Law Department (Policy and Appeal Division) while earning a law degree at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Jeong Yeon Hong, Community Education and Administrative Coordinator, oversees Korean language publications and communications including media and website as well as translations. She also oversees a new project on credit education as part of a larger program goal of creating a comprehensive economic empowerment program. Credit education program includes conducting workshops for recent immigrants and youth on financial literacy and building financial credit, as well as training staff at NAKASEC affiliates to conduct similar workshops and educational initiatives. Jeong Yeon also assists with managing the Executive Director’s calendar, scheduling appointments, completing expense reports, and providing logistical support for all programs, annual banquets, events, meetings and conferences. She works with the Director of Development and Administration on the membership donors program, vendor relations, Board of Directors support and coordinates the NAKASEC and the affiliates’ community piece in the KoreAm Journal each month. Jeong Yeon served previously a NAKASEC Program Fellow from 2004-05 and joined the staff in February 2007. Jeong Yeon graduated from Sung Kyun Kwan University with a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics. In Korea, she served as an elected officer of the Student Committee of the progressive Korean Democratic Labor Party.

HyunJoo Lee, National Organizing Coordinator, is responsible for coordinating a national and local non-partisan voter education and mobilization campaign, including voter registration and voter assistance. HyunJoo works to develop and maintain strong relationships with key national and local Asian Pacific American and immigrant civic participation groups. She coordinates national trainings for youth and community leaders and advocates for policies protecting voter and immigrant rights. Before joining NAKASEC, HyunJoo served as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador where she worked with rural farmers and youth in local community development projects. She also worked as the regional coordinator for Free the Planet, a student environmental activist network, in the New England area. She received her B.A. from Boston College in Political Science and English.

Sookyung Oh, Immigrant Rights Project Coordinator, is responsible for coordinating the immigrant rights related campaign work of NAKASEC. Sookyung works with both national and local coalitions to carry out NAKASEC’s mission to bring a unified progressive voice of Korean American communities at the national level grounded in the grassroots organizing, educational outreach, and advocacy work done by NAKASEC affiliates in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Before joining NAKASEC in April 2007, she worked at the Philip Jaisohn Memorial Center, a Korean American community-based organization in Philadelphia, PA as the Program Coordinator. A graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Political Science, Sookyung developed and implemented the first Asian Pacific Islander American ethnic specific HIV testing & counseling program in the state of Pennsylvania.