Bio/Description

Hannah Jo is a junior from Seoul, South Korea majoring in Neuroscience with minors in Global Health Policy and East Asian Studies. Coming from a family of North Korean defectors, she is particularly passionate about studying the epigenetic transmission of war trauma and US grand strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. At Princeton, Hannah volunteers with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement and is an undergraduate research assistant at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Building on her work at the Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, she seeks to enhance peacebuilding efforts in post-conflict regions informed by the shared trauma and resilience of affected individuals.