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Currently, Stella is working on her M.S.A. - Accounting at Roosevelt University focused on accounting and project management. She finished her studies in May 2009. She is also a part time business intern at Hyde Park Arts center. www.hydeparkarts.org
Recently, she was added to the Committee/Board Member of H.A.S. - Health Awareness System that advocates health awareness in Illinois and its communities. She will be volunteering and assisting in health awareness outreach programs and fundraisers for H.A.S. She plans to combine both her creative business background with solid business accounting and project management to tackle the business and community service projects that lie ahead. Formerly, she had the pleasure of working as a publishing and media coordinator at a distinguished real estate appraisal company in Chicago. She is a graduate of Columbia College, Masters in Management - concentration in TV, Film, Print Media.
She also studied humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago graduating with a Bachelors in English Literature.
Stella Yoon has assisted in art organizations in the past such as the Director of Events at Splitpillow.
Her personal interests lie in education, media and business law, real estate, creating art, film and making documentaries about Chicago's diverse communities. She has worked with Frances Xavier Warde School (Chicago) on their 8th grade documentary and Theatre project for Class of 2003. Also, she has made small video promotions for small businesses in Chicago -2 Recognize Promo-Mark Stephens and Kiki Vale- Kukla Productions.
She was involved with marketing, planning, events and venues.
She assisted the Splitpillow Team by coordinating and shooting the "Cliffhanger" premiere that was showcased in November 2003.
She has 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
While working, volunteering, and studying full time in her graduate studies, she juggles her time wisely.
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)