Events

Join us for a free event hosted by the Center for Free Enterprise, featuring Yeonmi Park as she discusses her escape from North Korea, detailed in her book “In Order to Live”. Open to the public. Thursday, March 28, 2024, The Center for Free Enterprise is hosting a free public speaking event open to the public. Prepared to be inspired as the event will feature Yeonmi Park (North Korean Defector, Human Rights Activist) who will discuss her escape from North Korea as in her “In Order to Live,”. The event kicks off at 3:30 p.m. in Room 106 of the UTEP Undergraduate Learning Center. Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity!

Yeonmi Park is a renowned human-rights activist and North Korean refugee and defector who has become a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. Her memoir about her escape from North Korea, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, created a sensation worldwide and her has recently been published in 30 languages and 18 countries. Her latest book, While Time Remains, sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.

An insightful and candid speaker, Park is fast becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. At the Oslo Freedom Forum and the One Young World Summit in Dublin, she became an international phenomenon, delivering passionate and deeply personal speeches about the brutality of the North Korean regime. Her address to One Young World on the horrors of detention camps, political executions, and sex trafficking has been viewed over 320 million times. The BBC named Park one of their “Top 100 Global Women.