Meridian, Idaho, United States
Hoyoon is a problem solver and student studying Political Science and Product Design at Stanford University He has been solving problems around him since he was 15, where he entered government service as Transportation Commissioner of the City of Meridian, tackling the traffic infrastructure issues facing the 2nd fastest growing city in the nation. He later founded Loba Boba, a company that reimagined a drink he loved by making it healthier, which won him the Idaho High School Entrepreneurs Challenge in 2024. Today, Hoyoon continues to explore how systems (whether in policy, design, or technology) can be rethought to do good in the world.Through his work at Neopply and beyond, he hopes to spend his life building solutions that create more opportunity for the communities he came from.
Managing our custom built ticketing platform for events that attract thousands of students, faculty, staff, and outside media
Member of leadership bringing in distinguished speakers such as Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and countless others
I helped run Stanford's largest class (later turned into a podcast), which brings in the foremost experts on all fields such as fmr. Sec of State Condoleeza Rice, Founder/CEO of Zoom Eric Yuan, CEO of Pinterest Bill Ready, Best-selling author Michael Lewis, and so much more.
Frosh 101 is a class dedicated to helping freshmen navigate their transition from high school to college. In order to be able to teach this class, we got empathetic leadership lessons from Prof. Norman Spaulding of the Stanford Law School and underwent many different trainings embodying many aspects of teaching, psychology, and more led by Prof. Patti Hanlon.
Developed campaign infrastructure for Idaho’s first serious independent campaign
Expanding access for disadvantaged youth by simplifying organizational application processes through common applications, while increasing reach through a “for-you” page
I helped TeachIdaho digitize parts of their International Economics Summit, a hands on way of learning economics concepts. The work that TeachIdaho does touches on the vast majority of high school students in the Treasure Valley and Idaho, and by digitalizing their trading platform, it cuts down a lot of human labor in the pre and post stages of the Econ summit.