Interdisciplinary thinker & essayist JAYON YOU takes photographs with her mind's eye — framing, bringing to a sharp focus, making visible what otherwise would 

remain muddled or invisible.
    She holds a B.A. in PPE [Philosophy, Politics & Economics] from University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Social & Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University & a Master of Design from University of Pennsylvania.  She is also trained as a classical pianist & studied with Solomon Mikowsky & Byron Janis in New York City.
    Her concept-based projects give synthesis to her interdisciplinary training & her wide-ranging intellectual & artistic interests. They converge on the intersection between the individual & society that fuses the personal with the critical in direct engagement with urgent issues of our time:  

     Her first project MULTICULTURAL CHALLENGE uses her own experience of immigration to America at the age of 13 as a critical frame for inserting analytic & experiential insight on HOW we can rise up to the challenges of creating a multicultural democracy in the 21C.  Her second project ROOTS OF POPULISM delineates the key layers of CLASS, RACE, GENDER & CULTURE & intersection between them as what's fueling the rise of populism & HOW it can be addressed in order to create the vision of society that we believe in. Her latest project TRUE POWER WORKSHOP locates the root of power struggles in disconnection from one's true source of power — & works on empowering individuals, particularly the historically disempowered, with the tools to connect their true source of power, from which they can unleash & express their full potential.

    Passionate about education of youth, she taught as a design professor at Drury University, a liberal arts college in Midwest America between 2010-2015, where she taught not only design majors, but also students across all majors in direct engagement with urgent issues of our time.  Since 2015, she has been based in Berlin & continued to teach online — against the backdrop of refugee crisis in Europe, the shifting ethos & increasing polarization in America & the rise of populism & crisis of liberal democracy around the globe — engaging students in critical analysis of WHERE WE STAND NOW & social visioning of HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD.