E-Yon Park joined OWW as a CSR Analyst in July 2009. E-Yon graduated with an MA in Politics from New York University and a BA in Political Science from the Ohio State University, Columbus. During her graduate studies at NYU, she specialized in political economy and her research interests include regionalism in trade and development, comparative politics, quantitative methods, nationalism, and political economy model in both developed and developing countries. Her Masters thesis focused on how political factors affect the electoral outcomes with free trade agreements issues. She also worked as a teaching fellowship at NYU Stern School of Business and a teaching assistant at NYU Department of Politics.
Previously, she worked as an occupancy technician at the Housing Authority, Houston, Texas, where she was responsible for reviewing and screening the application files in US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Section 8 program and issuing vouchers. E-Yon interned at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York in researching the issues of social protection, children and migration, gender and remittances. She also held an internship at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), New York, where she collected re-exports data from all the UN member countries and decided appropriate data set for 2000-2008 Annual Total Trade and UN Comtrade data.
She speaks Korean (native), English (fluent), and French (basic), and enjoys travelling, learning new languages, and reading about international politics.
