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Eunice Song

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, KOREAN AMERICAN COALITION – LOS ANGELES

Location: Los Angeles

Member Since: 2020

Eunice Hur Song, Esq. is the Executive Director (ED) of the Korean American Coalition – Los Angeles (KAC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1983 to promote the civic and civil rights interests of the Korean American community. Under her leadership, KAC focuses on three strategic pillars: Civic Engagement and Community Advocacy, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Leadership Development.

A Los Angeles native, Director Song is a California-licensed attorney and experienced mediator with over 16 years of practice. She began her legal career as a Reserve Prosecutor and Volunteer Attorney in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and served as Mediation Director at KAC’s 4.29 Alternative Dispute Resolution Center prior to becoming ED in 2018. During her tenure, she co-led the Koreatown, Los Angeles Redistricting Task Force, successfully unifying Koreatown into a single City Council District (CD 10) for the first time in history.

Commissioner Song is the President of the East Los Angeles Area Planning Commission (ELAAPC), where she oversees land use and development decisions, zoning appeals, and conditional use permits. She also serves as Community Co-Chair of the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Language Accessibility Advisory Committee (LAAC), where she has contributed for over six years, and as a member of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s AAPI Advisory Board.

Director Song earned her Juris Doctor from Southwestern Law School’s accelerated two-year SCALE program.