Background
Ethnicity:
Choi was born to a Korean father and a Jewish mother.
Choi, Susan was born on January 28, 1969, in South Bend, Indiana, United States. Choi was born to a Korean father and an American daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. Choi spent her first nine years in South Bend, Indiana, where her father, Chang, who emigrated from Korea in the mid-1950s and taught mathematics at Indiana University. After her parents’ divorce, she moved to Houston with her mother, Vivian, an administrative secretary at Rice University.