He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's School Psychology program in 2006, completed a professional psychology fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center of the Yale School of Medicine, completed a fellowship in social policy at the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy of Yale University, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Song has held professorships at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Seattle University and has served as the Program Director of the School Psychology program and Chair of the Teaching, Learning, and Social Justice Department at Seattle University. He has practiced school psychology in traditional and alternative settings (e.g., clinic and hospital) and was a licensed psychologist-Health Service Provider in NC.