https://www.lumen.global/home daily 1.0 2023-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604857344548-VOT882NHALVLPRNHJ81O/LUMEN+website+1.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604858088652-PWVLEXLC724D3COJ0MKN/LUMEN+Website+3.png Home (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604857466667-L138VVW1H8YZU81X83OD/LUMEN+Website+2.png Home (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604878941685-VUQ47OUQZ4UZFCKFP5S6/Screen+Shot+2020-11-08+at+3.12.15+PM.png Home https://www.lumen.global/our-team daily 0.75 2026-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604100743859-IBKL0XH8SXWK20G62EXR/marty.png Our Team - Martyn Williams Director Martyn is the director of Lumen. Martyn is the founder of North Korea Tech and a non-resident fellow at The Stimson Center. He closely follows North Korean technology and media and in 2019 authored “Digital Trenches, North Korea’s Information Counter Offensive” for the Committee on Human Rights in North Korea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604860645879-RT9IYO6SBNBIZSCM0DCM/image-asset.png Our Team - Jieun Baek Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1615414737345-Y3K8QYIPJTZGWHP51VS0/sylvia+kim-01.png Our Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1605756670771-B1ASFGRHNRDMWS7HSFKY/SARAHYUN2-01.png Our Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604861232884-2E1NT6IFC8676GM13EP8/GREG+SCARLATOIU.png Our Team - Greg Scarlatoiu Greg is the Executive Director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) in Washington, D.C. Scarlatoiu is also vice president of the International Council on Korean Studies (ICKS). He holds degrees from Seoul National University and the Fletcher School of Diplomacy and graduated from the MIT XXI Seminar for National Security Leaders. He is fluent in Korean, French, and Romanian. A native of Romania born and raised under that country’s communist regime, Scarlatoiu is a naturalized U.S. citizen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604881490126-II5IMLJ57XCCHBMNSWRI/declan+headshot-01.png Our Team - Declan Cummings Declan has over eight years of experience working on capacity-building efforts for North Koreans. Since 2014, he has helped organize and run one of the premier leadership programs for North Korean defectors in the United States, the Washington Leadership Program by the Korean American Sharing Movement, whose alumni have been some of the first defectors to earn undergraduate and master’s degrees in the US. He is the head of engineering at Cinder, a startup building a trust and safety platform for the internet, and was formerly a Security Engineer at Facebook in Washington, DC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604860253207-PDX68IKBTNM01FYUKFG2/ANDREI+LANKOV.png Our Team - Andrei Lankov Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604861288683-43OZ95NTLXSZ948DTTWO/erin.jpg Our Team - Sungju Lee Sungju is the author of Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea. He is currently doing a doctoral program, on Fulbright Scholarship, in peace and conflict resolution at Carter School, George Mason University. He has BA in political science and journalism from Sogang University; MA, on Chevening Scholarship, in international relations from University of Warwick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604890724374-3WXCSFISZLFO027ALANK/GREG+SCARLATOIU.png Our Team - Nat Kretchun Vice President for Programs at the Open Technology Fund (OTF). Mr. Kretchun oversees operations of OTF’s multi-million dollar funding portfolio. He previously served as a senior associate director at InterMedia, where he managed research projects with a focus on Asia and hard-to-access populations. He has designed, fielded, and analyzed studies ranging from large-scale nationally representative surveys of China to qualitative studies examining digital communication patterns among Uyghur populations. Since 2009, Mr. Kretchun has done extensive research with North Korean refugees, defectors, and travelers; run annual surveys; and conducted qualitative studies for a number of government and non-government clients. Mr. Kretchun is the primary author of A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment and its follow-up, Compromising Connectivity: Information Dynamics Between the State and Society in a Digitizing North Korea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604861210341-M3CGO1BCG48YEKTX3GRR/SOKEEL+PARK.png Our Team - Sokeel Park Sokeel serves as South Korea Country Director for Liberty in North Korea (LiNK). As well as overseeing LiNK’s Seoul-based programs and operations, he works with North Korean defectors and experts to develop analysis and strategies to accelerate change and opening in North Korea. Park regularly briefs policymakers and the international and South Korean media, and was co-director of The Jangmadang Generation, a documentary highlighting social change in North Korea. In 2019, Park was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to UK-Korea relations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604862506438-3XKW8TEDNRQYS2DFXTZU/anonymous.png Our Team Engineers & Technical Experts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604862506438-3XKW8TEDNRQYS2DFXTZU/anonymous.png Our Team Grants & Finance Manager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604862506438-3XKW8TEDNRQYS2DFXTZU/anonymous.png Our Team Director of Social Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604862506438-3XKW8TEDNRQYS2DFXTZU/anonymous.png Our Team Director of Communications and Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604862506438-3XKW8TEDNRQYS2DFXTZU/anonymous.png Our Team Field Researchers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1604862506438-3XKW8TEDNRQYS2DFXTZU/anonymous.png Our Team Country Expert https://www.lumen.global/donate daily 0.75 2021-02-26 https://www.lumen.global/learn-more daily 0.75 2021-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1616616582759-1VG5MSJZDABG3IZ8ICAL/NK+At+Night.jpeg Learn More A picture of the Korean peninsula at night from space. Both China (at the top of the image) and South Korea (towards the bottom of the peninsula) are bright, while North Korea (right in the middle) is, quite literally, in the dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1617226772185-UYFAXFRCJKOOP0XWU3DJ/5015253795_192a40b4a3_o.jpg Learn More - "North Koreans are told their country is a happy island of modest prosperity, stability and high morality in a world of corruption, chaos and despair.” — Andrei Lankov, Kookmin University Professor & Lumen Board of Advisors Member (Source) Image Credit: Roman Harak (Flikr) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1618173364545-DUBQRNK4L0JDCTJ0MCRP/IMG_2577.jpeg Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9c9107b640f54d876484cd/1616618049980-LLJ9A0GWBIWOS91DF5RN/Yalu+River.jpg Learn More The Friendship Bridge spans across the Yalu River from Dandong, China, to Sinuiju, North Korea. 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