Juanita Hong was born in São Paulo, Brazil and grew up in the New York metropolitan area.
She graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo on May 2007 and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication, Psychology, and English. In June of 2009, she graduated from the Hallmark Institute of Photography and soon after, began to work on one of her projects, "The Deck Four", a documentary about ship life where she had worked and lived on a cruise ship for 6 months.
She later returned to television and film as she explored photographing behind-the-scenes on set. She continues to work on the "My Escape" bedroom project around the world, expanding it to short films, and is currently working on several documentary projects based on Seoul, South Korea.