Yeonmi Park

Yeonmi Park is the westernized name of a North Korean defector and human rights activist. At 21, she is one of the youngest women ever to be recognized as one of the BBC's Top 100 Women in 2014. She is the host of her own podcast, Casey and Yeonmi.  

She defected from North Korea in 2007 along with her mother and father.  Her father died of colon cancer during their flight, and after a harrowing time which include an assault on her mother and a dangerous trip through the mountains of Mongolia, She and her mother were reunited with her sister in Seoul, South Korea.  

She rose to international prominence after an impassioned speech at the One Young World summit in Dublin, Ireland, in 2014.  Today, she advocates for human rights across the globe and harmony between her native country and her new home.