{"id":54,"date":"2020-07-21T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:19:23","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-81 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-11.15.29-AM-1-255x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-11.15.29-AM-1-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-21-at-11.15.29-AM-1.png 392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/>I was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and attended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewha.ac.kr\/ewhaen\/index.do\">Ewha Womans University<\/a> for my BA in English. After graduating, I worked as a legal assistant at the largest law firm in South Korea, where I began to develop curiosity about organizational members&#8217; communication with their coworkers, supervisors, and stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>I moved to the US to pursue my graduate education in Communication. I received my MA from <a href=\"https:\/\/commstudies.k-state.edu\/\">Kansas State University<\/a> and PhD from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comm.ucsb.edu\/\">University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)<\/a>, where I was fortunate to work with supportive mentors who helped me grow as a scholar as well as brilliant students who helped me realize my passion for empowering others with knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>After earning my PhD, I worked\u00a0as an Assistant Professor of Communication at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cmst.utk.edu\/\">University of Tennessee, Knoxville<\/a> from 2017-20, where I was recognized by students as the Most Outstanding Faculty in 2019. I joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/comminfo.rutgers.edu\/\">Rutgers Communication<\/a> faculty in 2020 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>I love teaching and research and feel privileged to do this work with wonderful colleagues and students at Rutgers.<\/p>\n<p>I live in North Jersey with my husband, our two young children, and a dog named &#8220;Mari&#8221; who has been with me since graduate school. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family and exploring the area.<\/p>\n<p>*The photo is from the PhD commencement day in 2017, one of the happiest moments I cherished as a first-gen student!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and attended Ewha Womans University for my BA in English. After graduating, I worked as a legal assistant at the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu\/djwoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}