Hannah Jon is a rising senior at Washington University in St. Louis studying race, public policy, and education with a focus on Asian American Studies. Last summer, she conducted community-centered fieldwork and interdisciplinary research with WashU’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies. Her work helped establish EMPOWER, a free educational program designed to provide St. Louis refugees with English language and professional development.

On campus, she also leads Asian/American social justice organization Asians Demanding Justice, interns for the American Culture Studies/Asian American Studies Department, and co-founded WashU’s first Asian-identity magazine, (RE)ORIENT.

Hannah spent the past semester abroad in Denmark, studying the Scandinavian pedagogical approach as an alternative to U.S. educational systems. She is excited to return to the U.S. with fresh perspectives on educational policy!