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Yale Law Grad Who Won Survivor Gets FCC Job
Posted Oct 22, 2009, 12:28 pm CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Yale law graduate Yul Kwon, who won Survivor: Cook Islands in 2006, has a new role—as deputy chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau for the Federal Communications Commission.
Kwon told the Washington Post’s Reliable Source that he joined the Survivor show "to have a platform for the issues I care about." In his new job, he’ll be asked to make the agency more consumer-friendly and to educate the public about telecom issues.
"I feel like this country is in a critical time right now," he told the Post. "If there's one place you can have an impact, it's here."
Kwon is a 2000 Yale Law School graduate, according to the Yale Daily News. He clerked for Judge Barrington Parker on the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, worked as a special correspondent for CNN and was a co-host for the Discovery Channel.
Hat tip to Pat's Papers.