Katie’s published work
South China Morning Post articles
In 2023, Katie joined the SCMP in Hong Kong, one of the largest English newspapers in the region. There, she started off writing about sports and transition to become a reporter for the Young Post, the newspaper sent to schools. She focuses on topics such as education, underserved communities, inspiring stories, NGO work, and more. Check out her recent work!
NBC Olympics Articles
in 2021 and 2022, Katie worked for NBC Sports to cover both the Tokyo Olympics and the Beijing Olympics. She also did work with AI for the 2024 Paris Olympics. During her time on the Digital Editorial Team, she published several articles. Check them out here!
The Kryptonite Chronicles: The Weather Man
Katie wrote this novel when she was 13 years old, self-publishing it four years later. This middle-grade fantasy story centers around a group of four friends with extraordinary powers. The friends sneak away from their magical school to retrieve a stolen artifact.
The Allure
This upcoming adult speculative fiction is multi-POV and takes place in future a society centered around eugenics. In order to be granted permission to have sex, one must pass a series of government-appointed tests to prove genetic superiority. Fail to do so, and sex is punishable by death.
The Dakota Project
Katie wrote the first novel of the Dakota Project from age 15 to 17. This trilogy takes places hundreds of years in the future, where two races of human exist: civils and man-mades. Civils have birth parents, and man-mades are manufactured humans with fabricated memories. The story is told from the perspective of Dawn, a man-made who begins to learn that her kind are treated as sub-human.
The Colloquium
The Colloquium is Boston College’s political science journal. In the fall of 2020, The Colloquium published Katie’s 7,600 word essay entitled “A Model for Industrialization and Democratization.” In this comparative essay, Katie created her own three-step model leading countries to democracies, using South Korea as an example.
K-Culture Essay Contest
In its first year of existence, the K-Boston Essay contest received nearly 100 essay submissions. Katie’s grand prize-winning essay was entitled “A Commentary on the Importance of Korean Literature: My Path to Gaining a Holistic View of Korean History and Society.”