Annabel Park
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Annabel Park | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968 Seoul South Korea |
| Occupation(s) | Documentarian, Filmmaker, Activist |
| Website | http://www.annabelpark.com/ |
Annabel Park (Korean: 박수현) is an American documentary filmmaker, political activist and community volunteer.
Born in 1968 in Seoul, South Korea, Annabel immigrated to the United States with her family when she was nine years old, and was raised in Texas and Maryland. She studied Philosophy at Boston University and Political Theory at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar.[1][2]
Career history
Park has worked in her family owned truck diner, worked as a nanny in New York City and briefly worked in strategic planning at The New York Times as a strategy analyst. She has also worked as playwright, theater director, and documentary film maker. [3][4][5]
Political activism
Park was the national coordinator for a network of second-generation Korean Americans, the 121 Coalition, and was instrumental in the passing of House Resolution 121.[6] She co-directed and produced the documentary, 9500 Liberty, about the battle over the "Immigration Resolution" law in Virginia.
She is a co-founding member and was initially the de facto-coordinator of Coffee Party USA, an organization which described itself as a fact-based, non-partisan and solutions-based network that considered itself to be a "more thoughtful and reasoned alternative to the Tea Party."[1][2][7][8] Park served for a time as spokesperson and Advisory Board member for Coffee Party USA.[9] She has since departed the organization due to dissatisfaction with its governance process. She was a volunteer for Jim Webb's 2006 US Senate campaign and for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.[10][11]
Park is the creator and content producer for the interactive documentary 2010 Okinawa, exploring the controversy over U.S. bases in Okinawa. She teamed with film director Eric Byler on the web series Story of America (https://storyofamericafilm.com/feature-film/) which helped to launch both the Moral Monday movement and the "Walking Mayor" Adam O'Neal and the fight for rural healthcare (SaveourHospital.org).
