Esther Park

Esther Park is the Program Associate at the John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation, supporting the planning and execution of the McNulty Prize, research projects, and office administration. They also assist with grants management and processes for the Foundation.

Esther previously served as a Summer Associate with the McNulty Foundation and began their work in the philanthropic sphere with the Prospect Hill Foundation. She was also recognized as an Arthur Liman Public Interest Law fellow from Yale Law School.

Passionate about the intersections of culture, politics, and religion, Esther was awarded distinction for her thesis on the appearance of apocalyptic language in discourse on wildfires, investigating how survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire told stories of resilience. Esther has a degree in both Political Science and Religion, graduating with honors and magna cum laude from Barnard College.