Jasmine A-young Park

Jasmine A-young Park
Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND
Santa Monica Office

Education

M.A. in global affairs, Yale University; B.A. in history and East Asian studies, Harvard University

Overview

Jasmine A-young Park (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Technology Applications and Implications stream at Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy analyst at RAND. She has an M.A. in global affairs from Yale University and a B.A. in history and East Asian studies from Harvard University. Her research interests include age-appropriate content and design, child and student privacy, K-12 education, and digital anthropology.

Park works as a policy Strategist for Kids & Family at Google and serves as vice president of the Board of Education for Torrance Unified School District. At Google, she develops and implements age-appropriate and equitable policies for kids and teens across Google's products. At TUSD, she sets the strategic vision, maintains fiscal responsibility, and ensures public accountability for a diverse district of 22,000 students across 34 schools speaking over 80 languages. Prior to joining Google, she was the senior Child and student privacy expert at PRIVO and a policy fellow for Youth & Education Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum. Park previously served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cambodia, and currently serves on the board of directors of Brio Health Global.

Languages

Korean; Khmer/Cambodian