Annabel Park

"Story of America" is an ambitious documentary web series launched in 2012 directed by Annabel Park about searching for hope and healing in America's divide. A particular focus on voting rights called attention to voter suppression in many states and counties, particularly during the 2012 US Presidential election, when elected officials, such as Elijah Cummings, and lawyers and activists were interviewed to share what they witnessed in terms of the practices used to block minority voters from exercising their rights at the polls.

Park is the creator and content producer for the interactive documentary 2010 Okinawa, exploring the controversy over U.S. bases in Okinawa. She teamed with film director Eric Byler on the web series Story of America (StoryofAmerica.org) which helped to launch both the Moral Monday movement and the "Walking Mayor" Adam O'Neal and the fight for rural healthcare (SaveourHospital.org).

She is a co-founding member and was initially the de facto-coordinator of Coffee Party USA, an organization which described itself as a fact-based, non-partisan and solutions-based network that considered itself to be a "more thoughtful and reasoned alternative to the Tea Party." Park served for a time as spokesperson and Advisory Board member for Coffee Party USA. She has since departed the organization due to dissatisfaction with its governance process. She was a volunteer for Jim Webb's 2006 US Senate campaign and for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Born in 1968 in Seoul, South Korea, Annabel immigrated to the United States with her family when she was nine years old, and was raised in Texas and Maryland. She studied Philosophy at Boston University and Political Theory at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar.