Talk with TED Fellow: Adrian Hong

[Fletcher NKWG]

Adrian Hong, Founder of LiNK (Liberty in North Korea)

When: Tuesday, Apr 16, 2013 / 12:30-2 pm
Where: Murrow Room, The Fletcher School

Adrian Hong serves as managing director of Pegasus Strategies LLC, an advisory firm for governments, corporations, and NGOs. His commentary has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and the Washington Post  and on Fox News. 

Mr. Hong was the co-founder and Executive Director of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), an international NGO devoted to human rights in North Korea.  In May 2006, LiNK helped arrange the first asylum to be given to North Korean refugees by the U.S.

Mr. Hong was a Visiting Lecturer in 2008 teaching “America, Human Rights and Foreign Policy” at Korea’s Ewha University.  In 2009, Mr. Hong was selected as a TED fellow and an Arnold Wolfers Fellow at Yale University.  The same year he was selected to receive the Japanese American Citizens League “Vision Award.”  In 2011, he co-founded the group Street Symphony with another TED fellow, Robert Vijay Gupta. The group's mission is to deliver "live classical music to mentally ill individuals living in deeply impoverished, disenfranchised communities in Los Angeles."

[Fletcher North Korea Working Group]

Hello NKWG.

Hope you and your friends were safe from the tragic incident yesterday. 

I want to invite 4 people for lunch with Adrian Hong before the talk. The lunch will start from 11:45 and official talk will start from 12:30 and ends around 2pm as scheduled. If you are included the four people, you can come to Murrow room at 11:45. If not, please come to the same room at 12:30. 

Please email Joon (khj...@gmail.com) ASAP, if you want to come for the (free) lunch today.

Thanks,

Joon

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