Jungsoo Ahn

M E E T J U N G S O O

Jungsoo Ahn is a researcher, contemplative educator, and systems thinker with experience across education and nonprofit leadership. Her work sits at the intersection of learning, identity, and systems - whether in classrooms, communities, or cross-sector networks.

She has founded and led nonprofit organizations, built an elementary school, and worked at every level of the educational enterprise - from classroom teacher to school leader, from teacher education to policy and advocacy to higher education. Through these experiences, she came to see how the lessons we absorb in childhood do not disappear but are carried into adulthood, shaping our identities and our possibilities.

Her scholarship explores how those early lessons are metabolized—taken in, resisted, or released, and asks what remains if we are not simply what we have learned. At its heart, her work examines how consciousness shapes not only how we move through the world but also how we build it together.

Beyond her professional work, Jungsoo is an avid Detroit Lions fan, a classical pianist, and an amateur watercolorist. Her deepest calling is being a mother.