Myongjae M. Yi has been a prosecutor at the Queens County District Attorney’s Office in New York since 2007 and currently serves as the Section Chief of its Office of Immigrant Affairs. There, he oversees complaints and investigations into crimes targeting immigrants such as immigration services “Notario” fraud, investment scams, real estate broker fraud, and extortion via deportation threats. Mr. Yi also directs the U Visa and T Visa certification processes for crime victims, oversees extensive community outreach initiatives and fraud prevention seminars, trains incoming prosecutors and NYPD police officers, represents his office at immigrant protection-related public hearings and a state-wide task force, and facilitates cooperation from immigrant victims and witnesses without fear of immigration consequences. Prior to this, Mr. Yi was assigned to the Organized Crime & Rackets Bureau where he led long-term investigations with city, state and federal authorities utilizing wiretap, undercover detectives, and confidential informants. He vertically prosecuted a variety of “press cases” involving: criminal enterprises trafficking stolen luxury automobiles, narcotics, and/or firearms; insurance fraud; online child pornography sharing via peer-to-peer networks; online child luring; and prolific car/motorcycle theft operations. In 2014, Mr. Yi was recognized for conducting a joint wiretap investigation that brought down the largest stolen car trafficking enterprise in NYPD history. He served three years as a co-chair of the Asian American Bar Association of New York’s Prosecutors’ Committee, interviews and recruits prospective prosecutors, and has been a guest speaker or panelist in numerous seminars ranging from law enforcement training to community crime prevention. Mr. Yi is a graduate of St. John’s University School of Law and the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Jina Kim, Vice President, is a prosecutor for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, currently assigned to the Family Violence Unit. She has prosecuted numerous cases involving domestic violence, child abuse, child sex crimes, and elder abuse. She has completed over 60 jury and bench trial during her career as a prosecutor, and also educated the Korean American community regarding domestic violence prosecutions. Prior to becoming a criminal prosecutor, she was a civil litigator for three years. Ms. Kim attended the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and University of California, Berkeley, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. She was the President of the Minority Pre-Law Coalition at U.C. Berkeley, and while at law school, she placed as an oralist in The International Jessup Moot Court competition.

Irene Lee joined the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office as a prosecutor in April of 2008. One of her most notable cases includes a triple-jury conspiracy to commit murder trial involving an intricate plot by 3 defendants to kill one of the co-defendant’s mother for her money. Currently, she is assigned to the Family Violence Division, where she handles serious domestic violence and child abuse cases. She is currently teaching a fifth grade class in downtown Los Angeles with Project L.E.A.D., a program at the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office that informs the youth about various aspects of the criminal justice system and the importance of education. She is a past Treasurer for the Korean Prosecutors Association.

H. Glenn Kim is a Deputy District Attorney at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office since 2011. He served as a Deputy District Attorney at the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office from 2007 to 2010. He is currently assigned to the Felony Domestic Violence unit where he prosecutes DV homicides and other extremely violent DV cases. He has prosecuted over 45 jury trials to verdict including homicides, child sexual assaults, and domestic violence cases. During law school, he was a Pro Se Department Judicial Extern for the Honorable Saundra B. Armstrong, an intern at the California Attorney General’s Office in San Francisco, and a law clerk at the San Francisco County District Attorney’s Office. In Law school, he founded the Korean American Law Student Association and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He has earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jerry Baik is currently an Assistant City Attorney and joined the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office in 1994 as a Deputy City Attorney assigned to Criminal Division. In July 2012, he voluntarily transferred in-house to the Civil Litigation Section with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Previously, he founded and supervised the first-ever Identity Theft and Fraud Unit for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. His Unit’s cases were featured on Good Morning America, NY Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, local TV news stations, other national news circulations, and People magazine. For his work, he received awards from the U.S. Homeland Security-Office of the Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Social Security Administration-OIG, U.S. Food Drug Administration, and International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition. He was a national speaker on identity theft and white-collar fraud. Mr. Baik was previously an Assistant Supervising Deputy City Attorney for Central Trials Section, largest criminal branch for the Office. He supervised 45 prosecutors and 30 support staff members. In 2005, he won the City of Los Angeles Quality and Productivity Award. He was the past President of the Asian Pacific City Attorney’s Association, Regional Vice-President (SOCAL) for the National Asian Pacific Islander Prosecutors Association, board member of the Korean American Bar Association (SOCAL), and board member of the Asian Pacific Women’s Center (domestic violence organization). He was the founder and first President for the Korean Prosecutors Association, and founder and first Chair of the KPA Justice Foundation. In addition, he was a board member of Little Tokyo Towers (Senior low-income housing in Little Tokyo).

Sophia Choi is a Deputy District Attorney for the Riverside County District Attorney‘s Office. Previously, she was with the Riverside County Counsel Office for about 13 years. She is currently the Chair of KPA’s Continuing Legal Education. She has served on the KPA board for several years, having served her most recent term as Vice President-International. She is the current President of the Leo A. Deegan Inn of Court. She is also the President-Elect of the Riverside County Bar Association. She also served as the Inaugural President of APALIE (Asian Pacific American Lawyers of the Inland Empire). She is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Southwestern University School of Law.

Jeanaha Kim was called to the bar in 2003 and has spent the entirety of her legal career as an Assistant Crown Attorney, in York region, for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Ontario. She has experience in prosecuting various Criminal Code offences at the both the Ontario Court of Justice and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. For the last 7 several years, Jeanaha has focused her prosecutorial duties in the area of intimate partner violence. In addition to trial work, she sits on the region’s High Risk Committee, and provides training to the police, and members of the bar. She has also been part of a pilot project to create a community treatment court for intimate partner violence – this involves working with community partners to implement programming for accused individuals who are also struggling with mental health diagnoses, and /or substance abuse issues and there is a nexus to the alleged offences.

Additionally, Jeanaha has co-organized an annual fun run/walk for several years to raise funds for a community organization/group that whose works benefits individuals who become involved in the criminal justice system, as accused persons, victims or witnesses. This annual event brings together justice partners from various sectors – members of the judiciary, prosecutors and defence counsel, court house staff, police. The event has raised funds for various area shelters, the Canadian Mental Health Association, and Addiction Services of York Region.

Richard Kim is a Deputy City Attorney for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. He is in the Safe Neighborhoods and Gangs Division, Code Enforcement Unit. He vertically prosecutes property owners in violation of housing code, fire code, building and safety code, and county health code. Additionally, he prosecutes unlicensed contractors and other consumer protection cases. Mr. Kim graduated from Southwestern School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles, earning a degree in Philosophy. Outside of the Office, he was the former President of Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council and board member of the Korean Youth & Youth Center.

Jacob Lee is a Deputy District Attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He is currently assigned to the felony trial unit in Long Beach where he prosecutes many serious and violent crimes, including attempted murder, armed robberies, assaults, and residential burglaries. He has conducted over 30 jury trials to verdict since he became a Deputy District Attorney in 2013, first with the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office, and now with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Lee earned a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Margaret M. Morrow of the United States District Court, Central District of California. Mr. Lee graduated cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric. Mr. Lee also volunteers his time to teach a class of fifth-grade students about the criminal justice system through Project LEAD.

Jung Park is a Deputy Bureau Chief of a Trial Division at the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Since joining the Office in September 2001, Ms. Park has handled misdemeanor and felony cases, and in 2005, when she was transferred to the Office’s Appeals Bureau, she wrote and argued cases before the New York State appellate courts. In 2008, Ms. Park returned to the Trial Division where she continued to prosecute felony cases, eventually joining the Sex Crimes Unit, the Human Trafficking Response Unit and the Homicide Panel. In October 2017, Ms. Park was promoted to the position of Deputy Bureau Chief. Ms. Park is on the permanent hiring board where she interviews, screens and recommends prospective candidates for Assistant District Attorney positions.

Sunkyun Roh is a Consul at the Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles, California where he handles inmate transfer, extradition, mutual legal assistance and Korean law counseling for Koreans living in the U.S. He has been a prosecutor in Korea since 2006, focusing on labor-related and election-related crimes. He also has a unique experience in dealing with the Somali Pirates case in Busan District (2011).
Additionally, he was involved in amending the Foreign Legal Consultants Act for opening Korean legal markets, when he was in the Ministry of Justice (2016). He was educated at Korea University Law school (B.A. 2004) and a visiting scholar at the Santa Clara University Law school (2013).

Samantha Routh is a Managing Assistant District Attorney in the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office. She manages a trial team comprised of herself, 2 assistant district attorneys, 2 investigators, a victim witness advocate, and a legal assistant. She has handled over 1300 cases during the course of her career ranging from violent sexual offenses, homicide, child molestation, armed robbery, elder abuse, and white collar crimes. On top of her trial responsibilities, she participates in presentations regarding criminal procedure, criminal law, and court room demeanor with academy recruits for the local county police department. Samantha is a graduate of the Thomas M. Cooley School of Law.

Jacob J.H. Yim is the Deputy-in-Charge of the Discovery Compliance Unit of the Post-Conviction Litigation & Discovery Division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He serves to oversee databases involving 50 plus law enforcement agencies, provides direction on discovery obligations regarding personnel, and regularly lectures on ethical and discovery procedures to DA personnel, law enforcement agencies, and other recurrent witnesses. He has been a Deputy District Attorney since 2000 and has spent much of his career assigned to the Bureau of Specialized Prosecutions, Hardcore Gang Division. He has prosecuted over 100 trials to verdict including 35 homicides and 6 special circumstances cases. He was dually-designated as a Special Assistant United States Attorney and filed and vertically prosecuted 101 cases involving gang members who re-entered the United States. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles. Aside from his assignment in the Bureau of Specialized Prosecutions, he was part of the Special Homicide Unit of Central Trials prosecuting complex homicide cases and media cases. He taught 5th graders in the Los Angeles Project Lead Program. In addition, Mr. Yim lectures on the S.T.E.P. Act to Long Beach Police Department and LAPD. He was awarded Prosecutor of the Year in 2016 from the National Asian Pacific Islander Prosecutors Association and was recognized by the Hardcore Gang Division in April of 2012.

Michael Yun is a new Deputy District Attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office starting in April 2019. From July 2015 to March 2019, he was a Deputy Attorney General in the San Diego branch of the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General. As a Deputy Attorney General in the Health Quality Enforcement section, Mr. Yun specialized in the administrative prosecution of medical negligence cases and cases involving sexual assault of patients by doctors, psychologists, and acupuncturists. From January 2014 to May 2015, he served as a Deputy District Attorney with the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Yun attended and graduated from University of California Davis School of Law. For his undergraduate education, he attended and graduated from University of Southern California (USC) where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Sam Park is a Senior Deputy City Attorney with the San Diego City Attorney’s Office. She is supervising attorney in the General Trial Unit. She also oversees all the Hate Crimes cases. She was a Deputy District Attorney with the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office, California, from 2006-2007. She graduated Cum Laude from Thomas Jefferson School of Law and obtained her undergraduate degree from University of Virginia. In 2015, she was admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Park, along with the assistance from Daniel Bahk, Deputy District Attorney-San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, will represent our Southern California regions, including: Imperial County, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and San Diego County.

Daniel Bahk is currently a San Diego Deputy District Attorney and assigned as a readiness supervisor in the South Bay Branch. He has tried numerous misdemeanor and felony jury trials, bench trials, and dispositive motions. The cases range from petty/grand theft, drug sales, driving under the influence, and identity theft to attempted murders, criminal threats, armed robbery, assaults, home invasion robberies, and carjacking cases throughout his prosecutorial career. Mr. Bahk graduated from University of Arizona and Rutgers University School of Law in New Jersey.

Nicole Kim is currently a Deputy Chief in the General Crimes Section of the United States Attorney’s Office in Chicago, Illinois, and has been an Assistant United States Attorney there since 2010. Prior to that, she was an Assistant United States Attorney in San Francisco, California and Newark, New Jersey. Prior to being an AUSA, Nicole clerked for a federal district court judge and practiced corporate law in San Francisco for several years. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Arts in government and obtained her JD from the University of Washington School of Law (Seattle).

Chris Danbi Choi is an Assistant Director of Commercial, Financial and Corruption; and Revenue and Benefits Fraud at the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and also serves on the NSW Sentencing Council, following appointment in 2016. Chris became the first Korean-Australian Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law and is passionate about developing lawyers in criminal law practice. Besides managing prosecutions, Chris has been the co-Principal of the pro bono Korean Community Legal Service which she co-founded in 2011.

Chris is committed to public service in the administration of justice and hopes to continue serving the community throughout the remainder of her career.

Martin Park is a board representative for the Ontario, Canada. He is Federal Crown for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada and primarily prosecutes drug offenders. Outside of court, Martin is involved in providing training for law enforcement agencies as well as giving guest lectures at local law schools.