Biography

I was born in South Korea and grew up in the Philippines. I chose to attend college in the United States and specifically Yale for the quality of the liberal arts education offered in these places, and, by a similar line of reasoning, chose to major in the Humanities. Like many a hero (or antihero) of the humanistic tradition, I wandered through several disciplines, areas and eras of interest, but I found myself returning time and again to the works of Plato. At Cambridge, I hope to continue reading Plato, focusing this time on Plato’s use of stories and myth within the context of his political philosophy, as well as the context of intellectual history at large. The issue at stake - namely, the relationship between stories and the communities that hear them - is one that is particularly dear to my heart. I hope, one day, to share my love of reading and writing on a global scale, beginning with the Cambridge community.