How One Phone Call Saved This Korean Senior’s Life | ft. June Lee, KCCEB

Описание: June Lee serves as the Executive Director of the Korean Community Center of the East Bay, where she works to reify the organization’s key tenets of community service, research, and engagement.

Growing up in Korea, she tells us that she was a rather outspoken child with strong opinions who looked up to her father. He worked in international trade and would often bring non-Korean guests to their home. Intrigued by what felt like a limitless world of experiences and opportunities outside of her native Korea, June endeavored to explore the world for herself. She immigrated to the United States, where she worked in advertising for a while.

At the time, she did not know that she would pivot careers toward the nonprofit world. But she tells us that during her pregnancy, she began to think about what her life story would be for her daughter. Joining KCCEB in 2010, she was inspired by its mission of empowering Korean and other immigrant populations in the Bay Area. Since then, she has worked to implement an impact-based, community health framework alongside the service work that KCCEB had long been doing.

For June, the most memorable moments on the job are when she sees the real, tangible impacts of KCCEB’s work in the lives of the individuals they serve. She tells us how she “hopes the Korean community, individually and collectively, can live their lives to the fullest… this is everybody’s right.”

In collaboration with Koreatown Youth + Community Center of Los Angeles, Koreatown Storytelling Program is an intergenerational, multilingual and multiethnic oral history and digital media program that teaches ethnographic and storytelling techniques to high school students and elders to investigate cultural practices and racial, economic and health inequities in our community.

Special thanks to Korean Community Center of the East Bay for hosting this Legacy Project recording. Funding made possible by Korean American Community Foundation of San Francisco.

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CREDITS
Interviewer: Christine Choi
Video: Janice Chung @janicekaramchung & Kimberly Young Sun @kimberlyyoungsun
Audio: Tony Morales @tony___m
Editor: Sarah Park @lalaspark
Production Manager: Kimberly Young Sun
Motion Designer: Aj Valente https://ajyval.myportfolio.com
Music Composer: Jang Hyeong Yoon
Executive Producer: HJ Lee

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