Must Know Mustangs by Drishti Sachdeva

mustknowmustangs.Hometown:Daegu, South Korea Majors:Management, Piano Year:Senior ihoon Choi was born in South Korea, but he and his family left the country when he was a toddler. Nevertheless, he recognized the difference between South Korea and North Korea, and how difficult life was for those living under the dictatorship that existed just next door. He wanted to help bridge that gap. “I’ve seen family friends who have relatives in North Korea, and they’re not able to contact them at all,” he says. “It’s painful to watch people that you know have to go through this, and the best thing I could do as an individual was to help this cause.” Choi decided to turn his discontent into motivation and now contributes to this global humanitarian effort as president of SMU’s chapter of Liberty in North Korea, known as LiNK. The group is an international nonprofit that helps refugees in North Korea escape and start a new life. Choi hopes LiNK can spread awareness about the struggles in North Korea and raise enough funds to help refugees. jihoon choi kyra silvanose jordyn harrell Hometown: Orange County, California Majors: Management, Psychology Year: Senior Kyra Silvanose is president of Women in Business, a campus organization that connects women students at the Cox Business School to SMU alumnae at Fortune 500 companies. It’s a position she was inspired to fill because of her mom. Watching her mom struggle to establish herself as an entrepreneur was tough, she says. But it also made her appreciate how beneficial it could be “when people would support her or bolster women in the business industry.” Her mom’s struggles became Silvanose’s motivation to go to business school and to uplift her fellow female classmates. Silvanose believes to make progress, incoming women in the workforce must Hometown:DeSoto, Texas Majors:Creative Writing, Journalism Year:Senior For Jordyn Harrell, the idea of community not only encompasses her family but also her tight-knit town, DeSoto, Texas, where neighbors always looked after each other. Harrell wanted to recreate the same type of safe and supportive space at SMU, so she began channeling her energy and appreciation of unity into on-campus programming. Currently she is the director of In Their Own Voices, a workshop held through SMU’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion that promotes diversity and racial equality. Through the program, Harrell has taught leaders in organizations like the SMU Senate and the Human Rights Program how to navigate instances of racism on campus. “Going to a predominantly white institution, I know that for some of us, community is hard to find,” she says. “In those small moments, whether you feel that is insignificant or not, creating that space that makes someone feels welcome – it matters.” By Drishti Sachdeva Learn more about these SMU students at smulook.com understand the existing inequalities in the corpo42 • SMU LOOK rate world so they are better prepared to advocate for their goals once they become a professional.

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