The Journey
From London to Pleasantville. From Pratt to the road. From stages to classrooms to systems.
Born Between Worlds
Kevin was born in London to Korean parents and came to New York in the early nineties. His family settled in Pleasantville, a quiet suburb just north of the city, where he grew up navigating between cultures. He was the kind of kid who took things apart to understand how they worked and built things before anyone called it making.
“I was always more interested in how things worked than what they were supposed to be.”
Learning to See
At Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Kevin studied art and design. The education was rigorous and eclectic: form, function, critique, and relentless iteration. It was where making as thinking first took serious shape. Pratt did not just teach Kevin how to create things. It taught him to ask whether they should exist, and what they were for.
“Design at Pratt wasn't about aesthetics. It was about argument.”
Stages, Not Classrooms
Before he ever stood in front of a class, Kevin stood in front of crowds. He spent years as a performing artist, traveling and playing shows with bands including Porches and Rivergazer. The road is its own education: reading a room full of strangers, holding attention without structure, communicating across every kind of distraction. The skills turned out to be identical to teaching.
“Every show is a lesson plan. You know your material and then you read the room.”
The Artist in the Classroom
Kevin's first classroom was at Village Community School in Manhattan's West Village, where he taught Art and Design to students in grades five through eight. He brought the same discipline from Pratt: make it, critique it, make it again. During those years, he redesigned the school's 40-foot mural at West 10th and Greenwich Avenue. That mural is still part of VCS's brand identity today.
“That mural outlasted me at VCS. That's the truest thing I've made.”
Back on the Road
In 2015, Kevin stepped away from the classroom and returned to performing full-time, touring with Porches and Rivergazer. It was a deliberate choice, not a detour. Some chapters demand to be finished before the next one can begin. Two years later, the road pointed back toward schools.
“Some things you have to do before you can do the next thing.”
The Integrator
Kevin returned to Village Community School in 2017, this time as Technology Integrator and STEAM Teacher. He built a K-8 educational technology curriculum from the ground up. In March 2020, the pandemic arrived, and Kevin led VCS's full transition to remote learning. You cannot integrate technology into classrooms you have never taught in.
“The best ed tech is infrastructure, not innovation. The pandemic made that undeniable.”
Building the Machine
Rye Country Day School brought Kevin in as Makerspace Director and Upper School Technology Coordinator in 2022. He designed three consecutive professional learning cohorts on AI literacy, co-led two MSA RAIL endorsements, and was featured nationally by Middle States out of 100+ schools. He launched the AI Agency Toolkit and took on consulting agreements with New York Military Academy and Pingry School.
“AI governance is not a technology question. It is a Portrait of a Graduate question.”
The Next Chapter
Kevin is actively seeking his next role for the 2026-2027 school year: Director of Educational Technology, CIO, or a senior leadership position where systems thinking, AI governance, and institutional leadership converge. He is available for consulting engagements, speaking, and collaboration.
“The work I want to do next doesn't have a title yet. That's what makes it worth doing.”
15 moments that shaped it
Ready for the next chapter.