Ji-hye joined the Innocence Project as a paralegal in August 2023. Prior to starting at the Innocence Project, Ji-hye developed an interest in client-centered advocacy work as a housing justice organizer with Manufactured Housing Action. She has experience researching climate litigation and human rights law at Seoul National University, tracking racial disparities in incarceration with the Hawai’i Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, and serving as a legislative intern for the U.S. Senate. Ji-hye graduated from Yale University in 2022, where she earned a B.A. in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and was a Human Rights Scholar. She is an avid writer of poetry.