Danica Jeewon Kim is a PhD student in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. She works with her mentor Ethan Kutlu in the Speech Sign Systems Lab. Her research focuses on understanding how individual, societal, and environmental factors interact to influence the way people process and perceive language.

Before beginning her PhD, Danica earned a bachelor's degree in Child Welfare and Studies from Sookmyung Women's University and a master's degree in Child and Family Studies, with an emphasis in Human Development, from Yonsei University in Korea. She then completed a second master's degree in Linguistics at the University of Iowa. This background in human development and linguistics shapes her interdisciplinary approach to studying language processing and perception.