In Chapter 2 of 17 in her 2013 Capture Your Flag interview, non-profit executive Kyung B. Yoon answers "How Did Your Passion for Alleviating Poverty Develop and How Has It Been a Common Thread in Your Career?" Yoon sees connecting her passion to dealing with poverty issues across her career. From working in economic development to non-profit filmmaking to broadcast journalism to her current role at KACF, Yoon's focus on poverty and social inequality stays central to her work.
Kyung B. Yoon is the executive director of the Korean American Community Foundation (KACF) in New York City. An award-winning journalist and documentary film producer, Yoon earned an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in History and Political Science at Wellesley College.