Journalism As a journalist, Yoo worked for publications including the
Detroit News,
Seattle Times and
People. Screenwriting As a television screenwriter, Yoo has writing credits for television shows including
Supergirl,
Mozart in the Jungle, and
The West Wing. She was co-executive producer of
Supergirl and
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Children's and young adult books Yoo's debut children's narrative nonfiction book
Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story was an Honor Book at the 2006
Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (APAAL), awarded by the
Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA). Yoo's book
My Kite is Stuck! and Other Stories was a finalist for the 2017
Cybils Award. Yoo's young adult book
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement won the Children's Literature Council of Southern California's 2022 Peggy Miller Award for Young Adult Literature, won the
Chinese American Librarians Association's 2022 Best Young Adult Non-fiction Book Award, and won the 2021 Nonfiction
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. It recounts the 1982
killing of Vincent Chin and the impact this had on Asian American people. Yoo's young adult book
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire narrates the
1992 Los Angeles uprising from multiple points of view in the Korean American and Black communities. Other works by Yoo include
Good Enough,
Twenty-Two Cents: The Story of Muhammad Yunus (co-written with
Jamel Akib),
Music Yoo also works as a professional violinist and has performed with both classical orchestras and contemporary rock bands, such as
Love,
Fun and
No Doubt. Yoo supports organisations including the Orlando Youth Alliance,
Stop AAPI Hate and
We Need Diverse Books. == References ==