Hello and welcome to Empowering Youth Girls! My name is and I am the founder of EYG.

My passions in life include fighting for equal rights of women and girls, eradicating sexual violence and making sure girls know they are valued and loved in this country and around the world.

I was born in a small city in the northern part of South Korea. I was given up for adoption and ended up in foster care for the first few months of my life. I later was adopted. I've been volunteering with my church for about 10 years and have worked with Feed My Starving Children, for as long as I can remember. Seeing my first homeless man sparked something in me but at the time I was quite young and I couldn't do anything about it but pray. I knew because of that experience, I wanted to grow up to improve the lives of people who were struggling. 

The first thing I was taught is the world isn't on the women's side. Same goes for education. Across the world there are many girls, that are forbidden from getting an education. Still today, it seems like no matter how hard young girls and women work, they are still not seen as equal. Survivors of abuse, are still turned away and denied justice, simply because they are a women, and how dare they bring up accusations against men. I am taught that girls will never make the same amount of money as a male, even if they are in a higher paying job. 

I want to let each young girl growing up in todays society, that I am on your side. I am here for you. I see you. I see the disadvantages you are given especially if your zip code is somehow based on your character. I see the racial injustices presented and the worried looks on parents faces. I see the hurt and pain of abuse that is somehow looked over because something about you is not "fit" for justice. 

I am 17 years old. But I am first and foremost a women- A proud women of the Asia-Pacific race. And I will never stop until there is a days that women are treated fairly.

I am a writer for VOY(Voices of Youth) and The Teen Magazine