Run entirely by students.

Director Jake Jayhyeok Song

A senior at Memorial High School in Texas. He loves sports and percussion, and enjoys spending time with friends and family.

Director Joshua Jeongmin Choi

A senior at Lexington High School in Massachusetts. He loves playing volleyball, basketball, and soccer, and enjoys a good time with friends the most.

Director Hannah Jooeun Lee

A senior at Chantilly High School. She is drawn to the STEM field — psychology and neuroscience above all — likes working with children and serving her community, and spends her free time drawing and baking.

Director Madeline HyeEun Dang

A senior at Fairfax High School. She loves playing volleyball, volunteering with children, and spending time with friends and family, and spends her free time cooking and drawing.

Director Eva Siyeon “Deja” Lee

A senior at C.G. Woodson High School in Northern Virginia. She loves boxing and fitness, and is interested in a career in healthcare.

Director Daniel Sungjae Kim

A junior at Winston Churchill High School in Maryland. He loves playing a variety of instruments and sports in his free time, and always makes room for his two younger siblings.

Director Jaden Baek Kim

A freshman at the University of Virginia. He likes learning mathematics and anything technology related, loves sports — especially fencing — and enjoys video games.

Director Daniel Minho Shin

A freshman at UCLA majoring in physics and mathematics. He enjoys playing volleyball and violin, and venturing out into Westwood to find new eats and places to hang out.

Director Ian Ahn

A student at the College of William & Mary. He likes to read and to lift in his free time.

Director Laura Lee Livingston

A sophomore at the College of William & Mary. She enjoys baking and singing.

Founder Jae Jin Grace Suh

Jae Jin Grace Suh has been teaching students since 1992. In 2018 she ran the first free math camp in Yucatán; three years later that camp had grown into a reason to build something lasting, and she and her own students founded Back to School Together — not as a class project, but as an organization the students would run themselves. She holds a Master of Science in Food Science from Cornell University and a Master of Public Health in international health from Johns Hopkins University, and writes a column for The Herald Insight. Her part in BTST is mostly to hold the door open: the students plan the fundraisers, run the departments, and teach the classes.