I currently work full-time as the Communications Lead at RightsCon team, Access Now. I’m not available for any part-time work.
As the president and a co-founder of Asian Voices Europe, I’m open to speaking engagements and organizing workshops. Have a look at our survey on racist incidents during the pandemic, and our legal recommendations to reporting and dealing with racism in the Netherlands.
BIO
Jiye Seong-Yu (she/her) is an activist and communications professional based between The Hague, New York and Seoul, currently working at the RightsCon team at Access Now. Previously, she worked as program manager for the Flash Drives for Freedom program, which won the People’s Voice Award at the 2020 Webby’s. She simultaneously worked as the logistics lead for the Oslo Freedom Forum series (Oslo, Taiwan, New York) and SXSW at Human Rights Foundation. She has also worked as fixer, researcher, and writer for international outlets including Aftenposten, ARTE, BBC Asia, Korea Exposé, Marie Claire Korea, NRK, Vrij Nederland and the Washington Post. Her translation clients includes AkzoNobel, Farfetch, YG Entertainment and French environmentalist/photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
As the president of Asian Voices Europe, Jiye coordinates academic research and legal remedies for anti-Asian hate crimes in the Netherlands and Germany, has spoken at Arminius Debatpodium, Framer Framed, Lantaren Venster, Leiden University College, Non Native Natives Fair, and been interviewed by Buzzfeed, De Volkskrant, KBS1 Radio and Marie Claire Korea. In March 2022, she became the first Asian woman to speak at the Women’s March protest in Rotterdam, where she co-hosts the Young Asian Leadership pilot program together with Dona Daria Centre for Emancipation.
A graduate of the Society, Science and Technology MA from Maastricht University, she enjoy questioning just about anything, including herself. She was raised in Auroville, an ecovillage on the Bay of Bengal, by her Korean mother and Dutch father. Jiye’s working languages are English, Korean and French.
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