2020

Diversity in Leadership Panelists

Margaret Park

Co-Founder, Seoul of a Leader

Assistant Principal, Seoul Foreign School

Diversity in Leadership Panel Moderator

Margaret Park is one of the co- founders of Seoul of a Leader and is currently serving the Seoul Foreign School community as its Elementary School Assistant Principal. She is passionate about building capacity in others so they can reach their fullest potential. Margaret is committed to fostering leadership development and diversity with experience in mentoring, coaching, counseling, facilitating trainings, and organizing conferences. She has experience teaching Special Education in New York City and counseling in Boston and Seoul. Margaret is a Fulbright Scholar and received her Education Masters and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Counseling from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Margaret serves as a director of UpDream, a non-profit organization that provides mentorship, fitness classes, and transition support for orphans in South Korea. She also volunteers with Liberty in North Korea, an international nonprofit and grassroots movement working alongside the North Korean people as they achieve their freedom. She is thrilled to be apart of Seoul of a Leader and hopes that it will connect, inspire and empower current and aspiring leaders to become leaders who make positive change in the world.

Dr. Josephine Kim

Faculty in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling, Harvard Graduate School of Education


Josephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She is also on faculty at the Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a National Certified Counselor whose clinical skills and experiences span many contexts including residential facilities, community agencies, and public and private schools. She has worked with multicultural populations through individual, group, and family counseling and has taught students of all ages in varied educational contexts, including private and public language schools and private and public colleges and universities. Kim has provided professional consultation and expertise on multicultural, mental health, career development, and educational issues to various media sources in Asia and in the U.S. She is USA Today's collegiate case study expert on school violence and has been featured in EBS (Educational Broadcast System) and KBS (Korea Broadcast System) programs in Korea related to developmental and mental health issues of youths.

Kim is the keynote speaker at 70-100 parent, teacher, counselor, and youth conferences yearly in Asia and in the U.S. She has been called upon during national crises, deployed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the federal government to work with Katrina victims during the summer of 2006 and Virginia Tech in the spring of 2007, directly following the campus violence. She is also the founding executive director of a nonprofit organization that aims to educate Asian Americans on issues of spirituality, cultural and racial identity, intergenerational conflicts, cross-cultural advocacy, mental health, and career development issues. She is a former resident fellow in the Administrative Fellowship Program at the Office of the Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity at Harvard University and is the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Elsa Donohue

Head of School

Vientiane International School


Recognized as a National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the State Department Office of Overseas Schools, Elsa is currently serving the Vientiane International School (VIS) community as its Head of School. Central to Elsa's professional philosophy is the idea that children are competent learners with an innate curiosity about the world. Elsa's love of inquiry-based learning guides her daily work. Her devotion to teaching and learning has led Elsa to continuously inquire into what constitutes a quality experience for all learners. Elsa’s latest passion focuses on supporting the expansion of leadership capacity throughout the school, with special attention to growing diverse teacher leaders, middle level leadership and highly effective teams. The journey continues...

Dr. Aquil Bayyan

High School Principal

Yongsan International School of Seoul

Aquil Bayyan has worked in the field of education since 2002. He is currently the high school principal at Yongsan International School of Seoul (YISS) in South Korea. Dr. Bayyan has worked in a myriad of school settings in the United States (Washington, DC; Garland, TX; and Plano, TX), Kuwait, and South Korea. Dr. Bayyan has experience as a teacher (social studies, business, and physical education), Advanced Placement (AP) teacher, department head, assistant athletic director, basketball coach, football coach, dean of students, board member, assistant principal, principal, and educational consultant. Dr. Bayyan has used his personal and professional experiences to become a well-respected voice as it relates to cultural competency, equity, inclusion, diversity, and social-emotional work.

Dr. Bayyan received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Howard University (DC), his Masters of Arts in Secondary Education from the University of Phoenix (AZ), his Principal Certification from Lamar University (TX), and his Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Technology from the University of Phoenix (AZ). The title of Dr. Bayyan’s published dissertation is, One-to-One Mobile Technology and Standardized Testing: A Quantitative Ex Post Facto Study. Dr. Bayyan is a former Division 1 Basketball player for Howard University (DC). He has coached/mentored several basketball players who have played professionally in the NBA and around the world.

Quaime V. Lee

Associate Director, Emerging Careers and JD Advising


Quaime Lee's calling is one of equipping individuals to thoughtfully and intentionally engage the world around them with purpose. For the last six years, he has been a career counselor and educator at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA. At a fundamental level, this work involves helping law students and attorneys prepare to compete in the job market for both traditional and non-traditional roles that draw on their problem-solving, analytical and advocacy skills. Beyond that, Quaime is deeply invested in helping them to be more aware of how their professional identities are being formed and to take ownership of that formative process.

Quaime is a relative newcomer to diversity, equity and inclusion work, but has worked closely with students, faculty and staff committed to creating communities in which all are empowered to succeed. For the past six years he has served on Suffolk Law's Faculty Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, where he has worked with colleagues to deliver training workshops to faculty and staff on implicit bias and microaggressions in their classrooms and offices, in addition to organizing more targeted trainings for his own office of career advisors. He is currently part of Suffolk University's Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Initiative, where he has organized and facilitated difficult conversations on race through the mechanism of healing circles. Last year, Quaime served on a taskforce of faculty and administrators assembled to advance more inclusive practices in how the university recruits and retains its talent.

Quaime is 30+ year resident of Boston, MA, after emigrating from the island of Montserrat in the Western Caribbean. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College, a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law, and a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. He approaches his tenth year in graduate career counseling after six years in the United States Department of Labor. He has also served in various teaching capacities in churches in and around the Boston area for almost 20 years.