Heejin Choi is an educator, writer, and a practical theologian in training. She designs and leads spirituality-based leadership programs that integrate theology and technology. Her work explores whole-person formation, tracing how memory shapes imagination and hope. Informed by neuroscience and embodied experience, she examines how body, mind, and soul grow together toward health and wholeness. At the heart of her work is a conviction that our daily choices participate in a life bound to eternity, bearing witness to a future not ours to earn, but already promised, and even now drawing near.

Heejin was a 2023 Faculty Fellow at the Salzburg Global Academy on Media & Global Change, focusing on “Imagining Inclusive and Equitable Futures.” Her writing has appeared in the Korea Times, Magazine Entrepreneurship & Opportunities, and Shalem Korea. She is the author of the “Future Cities” chapter in The Routledge Handbook for Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim (2022). Her chapter, “When Machines Take the Light Work: Polycentric Mission Leadership in the Age of Intelligent Agents,” will appear in Mission in Polycentric Perspective (InterVarsity Press, forthcoming January 2027).

Prior to her current teaching, Heejin served as an executive at a private research institute focused on sustainable development strategy and as a communication specialist at humanitarian non-profits. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Ewha Womans University, and master’s degrees in Environment and Urban Studies from Seoul National University and International Development from Cornell University.

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