Kelly Haejung Paik is a Seattle-based artist. After a career as a journalist & producer for the National Korean Broadcasting System in Seoul, Korea, she came to the US for higher education. After receiving a doctoral degree in Mass Communication at Syracuse University, she moved on to an academic career as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, teaching and performing research on the effects of mass media. In 2001, she moved to Seattle, Washington, joined the University of Washington, retired, and then dedicated herself to the arts.