Eun Chang Choi is currently an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Choi has also held an appointment as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) and the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP). In 2009, he founded the Global Poverty Public Awareness Project – the first Access to Knowledge (A2K) initiative in Korea – under the banner of open access to public knowledge. He hopes that nonprofit production of knowledge through online collaboration will enrich the public domain and share the altruist meme that makes impacts on effective giving. He is a legal scholar focusing on issues associated with open source, digital media and the relation between law, technology and society. Choi earned law degrees from Seoul National University and Yale Law School.

Heejin(MD,PhD) organizes various health projects, covering a range of health care issues. She has has participated in the planning, implementing, and evaluation of public healthcare initiatives on primary healthcare system, health system strengthening, infectious diseases control in the likes of Papua New Guinea, Palestine, Mongolia, Yanbian, Philippines, and Timor Leste. In Korea, she has been active in several organizations including the Korean Heart Study, Gyeonggi Province Health Promotion Technical Support Group, the Tobaco-control working committee in the Korea Health Promotion Foundation, and the Korea Society for the Promotion and Health Education. She has developed educational materials for public health education, and has also written about non-communicable diseases (NCD) and infectious disease control. A graduate of Ewha Woman’s University’s medical school, she is an assistant professor at Yonsei University Graduate School of Public Health and The Institute for Health Promotion.

Joon-Sung, MD, is a chief doctor of the National Medical Center, South Korea. He has participated in volunteer works in Haiti in 2010, then it sparked his attention to a series of problems related to global public health including preventable diseases. Since then, he has been involved in the field work of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare(KOFIH). While working at Korea’s National Medical Center, he came to the conclusion that there was a close relation between poverty and public health. In addition to research on Tuberculosis, he has enormous academic interests in global development in terms of public health policies.

We found Hyewon open, responsive, pleasant, and extraordinarily talented. She began work for the public awareness project in the winter of 2009 after her valuable experience at Process Studio Theatre Inc. in Manhattan, New York City. In all her work, she always goes a step further than is requested of her. At GP3, she took delight in seeing her designs influence people to rethink extreme poverty and produced many of our excellent design works. She was also our multimedia producer for motion graphics and films from 2010 to 2011. In summer 2011 she went to do a field research in the Namib Desert in southern Africa, which was a journey to brainstorm for better designs in the context of sustainable development. Holding a B.A. in Multimedia Design from Korea National University of Arts, Hyewon is also completing her M.A. in Design Management at International Design school for Advanced Studies (IDAS), Hongik University.

Jeong-ae is at the center of the cooperation and collaboration that are key to our design production process. She directs entire projects including designing the full set of materials for our public campaigns and redesigning povertyinfo.org. ‘Design for All, Design for Humanity’ is her motto. She is an energetic and supportive leader; she is the driving force behind the many hours of discussion and online collaboration among designers that go into every graphic. Without her commitment, we couldn’t have seen this fantastic website. While she is an excellent jewelry designer, she also has serious interest in the potential of social entrepreneurship. You may wonder what jewelry has to do with a nonprofit. The answer is simple: she will keep both sides of her life balanced. She firmly believes that one good graphic design can be far more influential than hundreds of research papers. She graduated from Dongduk Women’s University with a B.A. in Digital Craft.

As a Communication Design major at Hongik University, both his everyday life and academic work are inundated with commercial advertisements. But while staying in New York City, he got struck by numerous public ad campaigns in the streets of SoHo and Brooklyn. Impressed by the non-commercial possibilities of advertising, he began to search for a way to give his talent to serving the public interest. Now his professional design works consist of planning public awareness campaign, renewing new homepage and producing motion graphics. All public advertisements highly illustrate our message and effectively inform the reality of global poverty to people. He feels great pleasure in producing with other designers messages that arouse altruistic motivation. Although this involves great elaboration and stirring such interest in global poverty is a complicated task, he is optimistic. He believes his works will convey powerful messages even in the floods of commercial advertisements, so that many can stand against global poverty.

Ever since her first exposure to multivariate calculus, Kayoung had wanted to be a mathematician. She recalls the four years she spent engrossed in "the beautiful language of math" as an undergraduate student as some of her life’s happiest moments. Then in her junior year, backpacking through Southeast Asia gave her a real glimpse of extreme poverty for the first time. The experience led her to wonder if she could contribute her academic gift toward working against global poverty. That's how she found GP3, and we are so thankful that she did. Her eye for detail and brilliant ability for searching and categorizing (supposedly honed through poring over and constructing mathematical proofs) have boosted our quality of content production. Her hard work could also be seen in this new English website, which she initiated and set the framework for. She recently graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences and Financial Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and is currently pursuing an MPhil degree in Economics at the University of Oxford. She loves yoga, vegetarian cooking, and sometimes, you could google her dancing at a flash mob event to end global poverty.

Jaewoo handles a wide range of web-based software and in charge of managing Povertywiki.Org, the Global Poverty Digital Library. He once wanted to be a writer producing socially influential stories. Now as a software system engineer he hopes to contribute his capabilities for something valuable rather than mere financial giving. He finds that the open platform for global poverty information, he currently manages, gives much more significant impacts beyond the possible influence from a sole writer in addressing global poverty. Our web-based social awareness campaign frequently encounters complicated difficulties from software coding. Thus his joining is an unexpected surprise for us. His responsible works made us amazed whenever he made breakthroughs solving technological stalemate. His specialty lies in using the C++ interface to create various programs. He is an amateur novelist writing on science fiction and action thriller.

Wonjoo’s inspiration comes from Han Bi-ya, an emergency relief expert who is known for her travel books and expertise in development. After asking himself about what could be the most valuable contribution for the poor, he decided to pour his energy into GP3. He believes that people living in less developed countries deserve a better quality of life. What he has learned is that compassionate actions for the people in need require organized tasks to be effective. His role at GP3 includes managing human resources and organizing and implementing our annual programs. Given his major Global Economics, he hopes to work in a think-tank run by the United Nations or one of the international financial institutions. His other passion is playing the bass.

Miryeong wonders why the many vulnerable people in poor countries are still ignored or are being treated as a neglected issue in Korea. She has had a huge interest in fundraising for nonprofit organizations for years. Before joining GP3, she worked at Amnesty International as a face-to-face fundraiser. To further her knowledge, she also completed the three-month education course in fundraising at the Beautiful Foundation of the Hope Institute. Based on experience she is working on establishing a system for moderate and small-sized gifts from Korean citizens. Many volunteers have already found her a confident and persuasive speaker. She never hesitates to share her ideas on diverse ways of fundraising. Public knowledge on poverty is essential to encourage effective giving, save lives. Miryeong studies Political Science and International Relations at Korea University and Peking University, China.

Hanseul organizes GP3’s major programs and helps manage our online volunteer community.. She says that her life’s aim is to become more professional in what she likes and does best, and exert positive influence on people around the world through her commitment. She is currently studying Statistics at Sungkyunkwan University with plans to further her knowledge in International Affairs through her postgraduate studies and explore ways to combine public policy making with statistics. Having seen that statistics play a vital role in poverty reduction and world development, she plans to become a global statistics expert, who tackles issues on global health and hunger in practical way. When it comes to social awareness project, she has considerable confidence in that the campaign is conveying some good causes that eventually bring changes in our society and the whole world.

Eun Kyeom is a lead media producer. She came to us with a belief that media has the enormous power to increase public awareness and encourage effective giving. Now she produces video clips on global poverty and is also in charge of the communications of the team of producers and narrators. She knows global poverty can’t be solved in a day but when everyone’s thoughts are changed and actions are chipped in, it may happen a bit faster. Eun Kyeom holds a B.A. in Visual Arts Production and Direction from Soonchunhyang University.

Yujin is a creative designer, very dependable and more than competent for any tough job that comes her way. She believes in the value of every human life. Design should reflect sympathy for the underprivileged and encourage humanitarianism, she says, and this is one of the reasons why she joined GP3. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design from the Korea National University of Arts and continuous to investigate the intersection of human interaction, design and technology. Her inspiration comes from works of Sigmund Freud and John Cage.

Hyung Tak grew up with superhero comics dreaming to become a hero who changes the world into a better place, just like in the comics. His childhood idol? It was the Batman, whose starring role is to dismantle the criminal organizations that plague the city streets in the Dark Knight. Like the Batman, Hyung Tak is now a hero for us fighting against world poverty. He is responsible for managing the content production and checking for possible errors in both logic and grammar. He brings together the discrete contributions from individual volunteers to create a reliable source of knowledge for all, like the wikipedia. He says that being at the core of GP3’s knowledge production has given him a deeper understanding of poverty. If you ask him what third world debt is, he might give you one of his long speeches. He recalls the first moment he thought about poverty. He was poring over Karl Marx’s work with a bowl of ice cream, and he suddenly felt there was this inexplicable phenomenon in the world, named poverty. To him, it seemed like a sort of the irrationality that the world is involuntarily faced with. He wanted to redress this irrationality and that’s how he came to us. He was attracted by our approach that was distinct from other Korean organizations. He likes Marx, Chuang-tzu, and Richard Dawkins. He is studying Policy Science at Hanyang University and hopes to work at the UN Office of Legal affairs someday.

Duri was caught by words ‘design for humanity’ in a design theory class that currently links her volunteer work and professional commitment. One day, she got inspired by Victor Papanek’s tin-can radios which were used to bring important news and information to the poor in Indonesia. She is fond of some art works by Hans Hendriks like ‘Q drum’ in a wake of what she makes a commitment for underserved people. She became interested in design for all --not just for those who are well-off. She wants to help the public awareness project since it is a decisive factor in terms of giving new opportunities for those who suffered from the vicious circle of poverty and injustice in the world’s most destitute countries. She graduated from Konkook University with a B.A in Communication Design.

Jun Hye grew up in Romania, while communist political regimes in East Europe collapsed and the people were set free. During the period of transition to democracy, the country went through radical changes in many aspects. Having experienced that freedom of the press significantly stimulated democracy and brought people what they wanted, she learned something. When social agendas or problems gain considerable public attention, people are most likely to redress them working together forming social consensus. Jun Hye is an overseas fundraiser in GP3. Along with undertaking background researches on global poverty, she is in charge of writing proposals. She is happy to work with amiable people in the good team of GP3. She enjoys practicing yoga and participating in mock trials as well as nationwide debate rounds competition. Being motivated by her multicultural backgrounds, she is very passionate about advocating the rights of social minority groups. She pursues her studies majoring International Studies and Psychology at Ewha Womans University.

Tae Soon Park believes that the impact of civic media is tremendously influential because it has the power to move society. As such civic media also can raise social awareness of global poverty. Several years ago, Park’s work attracted public attention when his advertising video significantly contributed in achieving the highest record of blood donations more than fifty-thousand people. The blood donation campaign was titled ‘A Miracle for 70 days’. Currently he is a leader of our media team that consists of media producers, narrators, motion graphic designers and podcast creators. His professional works are now focused on civic media production that gradually improves social awareness of global poverty. He is completing his BA in Media Communication at Hanyang University.

Ji Hyun Park believes that we all have responsibility for global poverty problems. Therefore, everyone needs to help the poor for live better lives. She contributes her talent in media production about global poverty. In particular, she makes the most of her experience as an announcer in a broadcasting station of Sangmyung University. She works for us as a narrator.Also, she is interested in nutrition problems in poor countries and planning for volunteer work to improve the problem as a student majoring in Nutrition. She is a B.A. of Food Service Management and Nutrition and International Trade.

Hyun-Sang produces the podcasts in our organization’s mobile application, “Voices on Global Poverty”. He strongly believes in the collective power of individual talents, and maintains that poverty can be eradicated if everyone is persuaded to care about it. During his college years, as a member of the media team at the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, he experienced the distribution power of media and the attention it could gather. As a student of Rural Planning, he has taken part in a team project using appropriate technology for developing the alpine regions of Tanzania. He currently studies Rural Systems Engineering at Seoul National University.

Saerom manages the planning and running of events held at our organization. An International Studies major at Korea University, she believes that the power to change the world comes about when nations gather to cooperate. She has taken part in many activities related to foreign affairs and diplomacy, including a posting as Chair in the Model APEC. Saerom is currently a member of the Asia Law Students Association (ALSA), where she regularly takes part in academic forums and actively networks with many budding Asian law authorities.