Joon Baek is an advocate for data privacy, digital surveillance, and youth empowerment. and has experience working in artificial intelligence. Joon is a software engineer originally from Korea and now based in New York City. Joon served in the Republic of Korea army, working in the demilitarized zone between the South and North Korean borders. Joon Baek graduated from Columbia University studying computer science and physics. He is a software engineer at Google, a California-based multinational technology company and a subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc.