Current Kelly Fellows

Ms. Adrian Yi is a Kelly Fellow at the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She received her MA in Korean Language at the University of Hawaii as a part of the National Security Education Program (NSEP). She has studied abroad at Korea University for a year and interned as a research assistant at the Center for Security and Strategy at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis (KIDA). She received a BA in International Relations and Foreign Languages (Chinese and Japanese) from the University of Puget Sound. She studied Chinese at Middlebury College and has studied abroad in Japan through the Rotary Program. She has also worked with the Department of State at the American Institute in Taiwan.

Dr. Kevin Shepard is a Kelly Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS. He is also a research fellow with the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University and has recently earned his PhD in North Korean Politics and Unification Policies from Kyungnam University, Graduate School of North Korean Studies. He holds an MA in International Policy Studies from Sydney University and is completing an MA in Korean for Professionals at the University of Hawaii, after which he will be a resident Kelly Fellow with CSIS Pacific Forum in 2010.