User:Tsharma20/sandbox/Sam Seung Jung

= Sam Seung Jung = Sam Seung Jung (born February 8, 1988) is an urban planner, currently working full-time as Assistant Director at NYC Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives. His work focuses on creating more equitable economies and community wealth through scaling up employee ownership initiatives and increasing Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise procurement at the city-scale. He has also previously worked as an organizer and in art and research.

Early Life
Jung was born and raised in San Diego. His parents were immigrants from South Korea.

Education
Jung earned his Masters in Urban Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2011 where he majored in Ethnic and International Studies and minored in Critical Gender Studies and Visual Arts.

Career
Prior to his current appointment with the NYC Deputy Mayor's Office for Strategic Policy Initiatives, Jung worked as a Project Manager with NextShift Collaborative LLC. Before graduate school, Jung founded two collectives, Half-House and Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ). SFHQ explores decolonialism as a response to violent colonialism.

Throughout his organizing career, Jung has focused on education justice, queer API (Asian Pacific Islanders) and Korean communities. Before that, he was also an Emerging Arts Professionals Fellow in 2014 - 2015.