UnSuk Zucker (she/her)

Board Treasurer | Korean American

UnSuk is the oldest daughter of Korean American immigrants. She is a dedicated social justice advocate and racial equity leader.  She is a proud cisgender, grateful wife and mother, daughter, and sister who loves to cook and spend time with her friends and family.

She is a knowledgeable and experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion leader with demonstrated ability in developing programs and organizational best practices in linguistically and culturally diverse settings using an insightful ability to adapt to surroundings and utilize excellent interpersonal skills to promote collaboration and develop equitable practices with a specialty in leadership development. She is an instructional leader and highly skilled in adult facilitation training and coaching, particularly in equity/culturally responsive practices, leadership development, professional support in growth, evaluation, and coaching/feedback.  UnSuk’s racial autobiography is featured in Glenn Singleton’s Courageous Conversations About Race. UnSuk has also presented an equity session about the negative impact of the Model Minority Myth at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education’s Alumni of Color Conference. 

Her extensive experience as a senior DEI leader, district leader and classroom teacher has led her to become passionate in challenging the established systemic structures to raise the outcomes of all while tackling the predictability and disproportion of people in the highest and lowest achievement categories.  Through the years, she has developed her mission “To instill, to empower, and inspire” all.  It is now her greatest desire to instill the content knowledge through the culturally relevant practices, to empower leaders towards inclusive and equitable outcomes, and to inspire them to continue to foster a life-long love of learning and social justice.

As a former educator and leader, I bring with me the experiences and learning of what it means to be a leader of color within the educational landscape (the price of identity, mental/physical health, and repercussions of speaking up). This has led me to develop a deep and passionate commitment to support this equity work and to be a true disrupter of inequitable practices.