Jeannie Park is an executive editor of People Magazine and one of the highest-ranking Asian-American editors in the magazine industry.

Born and raised in Ohio, she graduated from Harvard with a degree in biochemistry. After a career-path readjustment, she got her first job in journalism as a proofreader and reporter for the Korea Herald in Seoul in 1984. In 1985, she moved to New York to begin working as a reporter-researcher for Time magazine. While there, she wrote entertainment-related stories for various other publications, including The New York Times. She then moved to People magazine in 1989, where she worked as a writer and editor for three years. She spent several months in Sydney, Australia, as part of the People team that created test versions of the magazine's Australian edition. In 1992, she joined Entertainment Weekly as senior editor of the magazine's television coverage and was promoted to assistant managing editor in 1995; she also edited EW's first book, The Entertainment Weekly Seinfeld Companion. In January 1999, she joined In Style, where she worked as an executive editor until coming back to People in April 2002. She has been a leader in diversity efforts at Time Inc. and is a founding co-chair of A3, the company's affinity group for Asian-American staffers.

Among her proudest accomplishments is serving as the founding president of AAJA-NY. She has held a number of other local and national board positions with AAJA and is currently a facilitator for its Executive Leadership Program. She was a lead organizer and fund-raiser for AAJA's two national conventions in New York City, in 1990 and 2000,  which each set attendance and funding records. She has received numerous honors for her diversity commitment and achievements, including from AAJA, the Korean American Alliance, Asian Professional Extension, the Asian American Federation of New York, the U.S. Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce and Asian Women in Business. She is also on the board of trustees of LREI, an independent school in Manhattan.

She lives in Manhattan with her husband and their two children, who keep her busier than she ever imagined possible!