Born in South Korea, but raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Emily is a Korean adoptee, who from a young age, has been involved with the Korean adoptee community in Minnesota and abroad. As a university student at the University of St. Thomas, she was involved with the Office of International Student Services, ELS Language Center, Children’s Home Society and Family Services, and the Minnesota Literacy Council. After graduating Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Communication Studies, she spent two years working as a Fulbright grantee in Korea (Pyeongchang and Pohang), and completed her Masters program with the Korean Language Flagship Center at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Emily has also worked at a Korean language immersion camp for Concordia Language Villages. She is interested in education and language acquisition, gender equality, and immigrant/refugee rights. In her spare time, she enjoys running, yoga, watching movies and K-Dramas, and reading anything that finds its way into her hands (a novel, newspaper article, or blog of random facts). She is the Advocacy Director at NAKASEC (nakasec.org) and can be reached at eakessel@nakasec.org.
Songs from A Collective Effort are available at SoundCloud (Http://soundcloud.com/acollectiveeffortmusic/sets/a-collective-effort-mix-bag) and other music of the podcast comes courtesy of Needle Drop Records by The Bell. Also featured today is "Long Live the Chief" by Jidenna from Epic Records, a subdivision of Sony.
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Episode 59: Peggy Galdamez
Episode 58: Kevin Kreider
Episode 57: Adam Goodman
Episode 56: Mike Mullen
Episode 55: Samuel Jamier
Episode 54: Emma Rafaelof
Episode 53: Robby Regal
Episode 52: Maline Carroll
Episode 51: Katie Naftzger
Episode 50: Michaela Dietz
Episode 49: Jonathan LeBrecque II
Episode 48: Jenny Town
Episode 47: Saebom SooHoo / Emily Kessel
Episode 46: Nayo Franck
Episode 45: Kelsi Macklin
Episode 44: Shaaren Pine
Episode 43: Ming Foxweldon
Episode 42: Kerri Vitalo-Logan
Episode 41: Deb Sivigny
Episode 40: Sophie Samdperil / Emily Kessel
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