Yoona graduated magna cum laude from UCLA. While there, Yoona joined the Campus Events staff, and she wrote art and culture reviews for UCLA's school newspaper, The Daily Bruin. Yoona was also a volunteer peer tutor, helping fellow students raise their grades and prepare for exams.
After graduating, she continued tutoring academics and test prep, and she began guiding students in college admissions, specializing in essays and special program applications. She also taught and tutored in the Writing Lab at Santa Monica College, was the head editor at a small publishing company, and has written and edited professionally for several companies.
Yoona has been helping students achieve their educational dreams and goals for over fifteen years. Encouraging them to identify and gain confidence in their unique talents and characteristics is her passion, and she uses a personalized and positive approach to build rapport and ensure that a student's best characteristics shine through in their applications. This approach has resulted in Yoona’s very successful track record in helping students gain admissions to their dream schools, including Top 25 colleges.
- She won a Fellowship with LACMA and was part of a team that organized one of the largest exhibitions of Islam at the museum at the time, including a completely intact, intricately tiled mosaic arch from an ancient mosque that was brought over from the Middle East
- Yoona won a Fellowship to study at The Huntington Library Special Collections in conjunction with UCLA.
- Gave the band Kara's Flowers (which later changed their name to Maroon 5) one of their first ever live "gigs" at a small coffeehouse on the UCLA campus when they were just starting out.
- She loves trying new foods, learning cosmetic chemistry as a hobby, and tinkering with formulations.
- Yoona was selected as one of the lucky few to view an original Shakespeare First Folio up close and personal at the Huntington Library— gloves and special tongs were required to turn the pages.
