.jpg)
Daniel and his parents immigrated from Seoul, Korea to the US when he was 7 years old, landing in Manhattan, Kansas. He was an ESL student who struggled to read the instructions on his math homework. Several years later, he was sitting for an interview with National Public Radio for placing 1st in a national writing competition. He became an American citizen during his first semester at Yale Law School, after getting a Master of Studies in Philosophy from Oxford.
Most recently, Daniel has worked with underprivileged high school students through the Department of Education in Virginia to increase college enrollment. He is deeply passionate about education access. In other moments, he has volunteered at a school for children in public housing, taught adult literacy, and worked at a New York City law firm, the Virginia Attorney General's Office, and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Daniel writes fiction in his spare time, and his family cares for over ten cats.