Seth Joyner serves as Senior Program Manager for the National Committee on North Korea (NCNK). With over 15 years of program management experience, he specializes in cross-cultural training, managing strategic citizen diplomacy initiatives, and facilitating intercultural communication. Seth is a Project Management Professional (PMP), a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). He also has a TOPIK II (Level 3) professional working command of the Korean language.
Before joining NCNK, Seth served as Program Manager for the USA Pavilion Youth Ambassador Program at Expo 2020 Dubai; a US Department of State exchange program implemented in cooperation with Global Ties U.S. While Seth directed recruitment and promotion efforts, the 2020 USA Pavilion Youth Ambassador cohort was the most diverse on record for the program.
Earlier in his career, he worked on the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) team at American Councils for International Education and oversaw the execution of professional exchange programming in cooperation with the US Department of State's Office of International Visitors (OIV).
He completed fieldwork in Incheon, South Korea, where he designed and implemented intercultural training workshops for the student affairs office and the surrounding community while in residence at the University of Utah Asia Campus.
Seth holds a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University and an MA in International Education Management with a Korean-language focus from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.