She is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley and is completing her dissertation, "Liminal Subjects, Liminal Nation: Reuniting Separated Families and Mediating National Reconciliation in Divided Korea." She also co-translated and edited the English subtitles for the 1997 documentary, Habitual Sadness: Korean Comfort Women Today (Bo-Im Productions, Seoul). She received her AB degree, magna cum laude, in English literature from Princeton University and her MA degree in Anthropology from UC-Berkeley.