My journey has been one of unlearning. I am a Korean American woman shaped by inheritance, rupture, and reclamation. Raised at the intersection of an immigrant household shaped by survival and silence, a fundamentalist Christian upbringing that demanded obedience and self-denial, and an American culture that renders women of color visible and invisible. I learned how to be obedient, capable, grateful, quiet, how to carry responsibility without authority, and how to disappear in order to belong. It took time to recognize what I understand now as triple erasure: patriarchy layered across culture, religion, and nation.

Deconstructing was not about losing belief, but about refusing harm. It was a reckoning with how theology and spiritual formation was used to sanctify abuse, control, obedience, and gendered sacrifice— especially for immigrant daughters. Letting go of certainty made space for honesty, agency, and a spirituality rooted in liberation rather than fear.

As a mother, this work is not theoretical and non-negotiable. It shows up in daily choices, in repair, in what I refuse to normalize. I am committed to interrupting cycles rather than passing them down. Often failing but committed to raising my children with more truth, softness, and freedom than I was afforded, without the silence, shame or spiritual violence that shaped my upbringing.

Much of my adult years were spent in religious and corporate systems, learning how power moves and how care is invisibly carried. Working and serving in male-dominated environments for years afforded many opportunities to navigate expectations shaped by gender, race and hierarchy. These experiences deepened my understanding of how institutions function, how power circulates, who it shields, who it exhausts, and has helped shape how I understand leadership, care, and accountability.

My nonprofit involvement started with advocacy for North Korean refugees and continues today through ReIndigenized Collective. This path has been essential in trying to stay tethered to people, history, and collective responsibility, more than the drowning Western cry for individual success.

Today my focus is reclaiming of voice, body, intuition, and lineage. I am passionate about dismantling inherited scripts, and building ways of being that honor wholeness, accountability, and collective healing. I believe liberation is not about returning to who we were, but becoming who we were never allowed to be.

I stand for women tired of shrinking, for daughters carrying histories they did not choose, for mothers breaking cycles in real time, for professionals navigating systems not designed with them in mind. This is my imperfect but evolving practice. A remembering. A refusal to disappear.