She contributes to New York Magazine, The Guardian National Geographic, NBC, Mic, among other media outlets. She started a more traditional career as a cops reporter at The Times-Herald Record in Middletown, New York upon the advice of everyone at Columbia Journalism School, from which she holds a Masters in Science. She then worked as a business reporter at Reuters and The New York Daily News before moving to LA. From 2005 to 2006 Soo was a Fulbright Scholar in Seoul, South Korea. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in English from Amherst College.