Originally from South Korea, she received her B.A. and M.A. in Psychology from Seoul National University, Korea and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She then received Psychology and Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to joining UTD in 2017, Dr. Park was an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 2015 to 2017. Her overarching research goals are to understand how socio-cultural environments influence experience, expression, and regulation of emotions and what implications these processes have on health and well-being. ​