Jieun Elizabeth Cha Park

Born in Thailand and raised in Indonesia, Jieun’s work revolves around a question whether opportunities contribute to self-empowerment of individuals in developing countries. She is a founding member of crowdfunding platform providing scale-up opportunities for social entrepreneurs, which inspired her to consult their self-assessment as well as visualization with enhanced public data and statistics, at National Institute of Forest Science and UN Women. Such efforts were supported via social entrepreneurship promotion awards by government of Korea and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning fellowship from D-Lab of MIT. Broadly, she is interested in belief formation processes in labor and leisure decisions under strategic social interactions within household and informal labor markets. She holds master’s in Economics from University of Essex, Bachelor’s in International Studies (Economics) and English Literature from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.