Gene Park

Gene Park is an engagement producer for The Washington Post's audience development team.

He is the former community manager and engagement editor for Honolulu Civil Beat, an investigative news service in Hawaii. He is also a former public relations executive, and a former online news producer for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and a former columnist and reporter. He was also the president of the Asian American Journalists Association of Hawaii, and vice president of The Hawaii Newspaper Guild/Communications Workers of America.

He has been a professional journalist since 2003.

His writing expertise includes breaking news coverage, business (tourism, commercial real estate, military spending, personal finance), crime, politics, judicial courts, public education, and the arts (film, music, video games).