Sookyung Oh (오수경)

Virginia Director
she/her | soh@nakasec.org

Sookyung Oh (오수경) returned to NAKASEC as Virginia Director to lead organizing and advocacy work. Previously, she coordinated NAKASEC’s national immigrant rights campaigns. She served at the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) as a Public Policy Analyst and the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis in Richmond, VA as a State Policy Fellow.

She started working in Korean and Asian American communities at the Jaisohn Center and Asian Americans United in Philadelphia. Currently, Sookyung is on the board of the Virginia Civic Engagement Table (VCET), Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights (VACIR), and the Alliance for Human Services.

She is a 2nd generation Korean American who enjoys comic books and the D.C. blues scene.