![]() Woori Lee was inspired to launch Aurora NK after the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered many resources for those in need. So in summer 2020, she co-founded a nonprofit, Aurora NK, with fellow USC Dornsife student Jay Lee, who at the time was president of the student club Liberty in North Korea at USC.Īurora NK provides tutoring, legal aid and health care assistance to North Korean refugees by pairing native English-speaking college students, lawyers and health care professionals with North Korean refugees. This family history drove her longtime interest in helping refugees from her grandfather’s isolated home country. Lee immigrated to the United States from South Korea when she was 17, and her grandfather is a North Korean immigrant who came to the U.S. The year before provides a good clue about one of her top priorities. But she enrolled in the online, 150-student class to learn more about what to value in life. In spring semester 2021, Woori Lee took the general education philosophy course “The Meaning of Life.”Ī human biology major who plans to go to medical school after graduating this spring from USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Lee had already satisfied her general education requirements. USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies ![]() Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West ![]() Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American LifeĬenter for Islamic Thought, Culture and PracticeĬenter for Latinx and Latin American Studies ![]()
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