Tag: 1.5 Generation

Michelle Kim Rogers was born in Seoul in 1961, her early years divided between the discipline of her uncle’s home and the rustic warmth of her grandmother’s farm in Inchon. While her parents worked to establish a foothold in the United States, Michelle spent her childhood in Korea drinking fresh goat milk and wearing hand-knit wool leggings, envisions the United States as a place where “dollar bills were plastered on walls.”

Sue Park-Hur is the co-founder of ReconciliAsian, a non-profit peace center in Los Angeles which equips Korean diaspora and Asian American communities and churches with rehabilitative and transformative tools to be courageous peacemakers.