Seyoung Oh

Seyoung Oh was raised in Fairfax, Virginia by her Korean single-mother and her older sister whom she considers not only her role models, but the reasons why she is here at Michigan today. She obtained her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in sociology and English in May 2018. Passionate about serving youth in global contexts, Seyoung has worked abroad in Cambodia, South Korea, and England. Additionally, as a first-generation college and graduate student, she hopes to continue in higher education by pursuing a doctoral degree in sociology. Her interests vary widely from destigmatizing mental health in Asian-American communities to researching multiracial church congregation in the U.S. South to teaching elementary school students about writing. As a GASP scholar, Seyoung hopes to begin a career in international social work as a researcher and to focus primarily on adolescents and women in the context of mental well-being and religion.