Samantha Joo, Ph.D.

CEO and Founder

Samantha Joo is the CEO and founder of Platform and the academic advising center coordinator and ADA accommodations officer at the Iliff School of Theology. In her past life, she has taught a range of Bible and religion courses at universities and theological graduate schools and founded Dding Dong, the LGBTQ Youth Support Center in Seoul, Korea. Her community consists of her rambunctious canine boys (Kimchi, Benji, and Cooper), niblings, siblings, most beloved friends, mother, immigrant youth in the city of Aurora, and progressive Christians and spiritual Nones at Iliff. She loves to cook, travel, and walk everywhere and anywhere.