Welcome To Stellayoon.com
Stella is finishing up her studies in Certificate of Business Forensics-Fraud Examination (October 2011) & received her M.S.A. - Accounting at Roosevelt University (2011). She is a graduate of Columbia College, Business Management & Arts Management (2003).
She also studied humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago graduating with a Bachelors in English Literature (2000). In 2010, she founded Shake Move Grow NP, a small nonprofit company that raises funds for youth scholarships for highschool seniors. Within a year, Shake Move Grow has grown to
establish their own website, supplies, support group, fundraise at various networking parties to raise awareness for community support for highschool seniors heading toward a college education. Shake Move Grow NP has awarded a scholarship to a 2010 Chicago Highschool graduate Daryl Johnson of Bronzeville Academy.
Formerly, she has worked as a publishing coordinator, billing manager, graphic designer, office manager, translator, bookkeeper, and manager for various small to mid size businesses ranging
in industries of commercial appraisals, real estate sales, education, printing, medical, and web design.
Her passion for arts and community kept her involved in various nonprofits.
In the past, Stella Yoon has assisted in art organizations in the past such as the Director of Events at Splitpillow, interned as a business & accounting intern
at Hyde Park Arts Center.
Her personal interests lie in education, media and business law, real estate, creating art, and film.
While teaching at Frances Xavier Warde Schools (Chicago); she coordinated and worked on community projects and help establish the 8th grade documentary (class of 2003) and Theatre project that continues on today.
She assisted the Splitpillow Team by coordinating and shooting the "Cliffhanger" premiere that was showcased in November 2003. She was involved with marketing, planning, events and venues.
During Columbia Graduate School, working full time, she has interned at Kukla Productions with Kiki Vale, radio host (creating marketing ideas and small video promos); interned at the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as an executive assistant; helped coordinate entries for the Midwest Emmy's and assisted in event planning for the Silver Circle Awards. chicago.emmyonline.org
She plans to tackle the business world with hard work & grow her consulting business (accounting, taxes, business management) and continue to give back to charity, arts & the education community in the Chicagoland area.
Quotes That Strike Me
“ There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. ”
- Buffet, Warren
Warren Buffet was born August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska. Warren Buffet is an amazing person who's success I truly admire. He is knows as the "Oracle" of Omaha. He started his entrepreneurial beginnings in highschool placing pinball machines in barbershops starting with $25. He attended Columbia Business School where his mentors taught, Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, "well known securities analysts." He comes from humble beginnings as an entrepreneur. He has used his wealth for good for the world and is a simple man. Yes, his net worth reportedly is over $62 Billion. He still doesn't even carry a cell phone or have a computer at his desk. He has old school values and keeps life simple. I admire that. He commented about inheritance and wealth,"I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing." (Wikipedia.org)