Nodutdol welcomes our newest member Sharon Chung who recently moved from Seattle, Washington. Welcome Sharon!

Sharon Chung is a second generation queerean, who grew up in the suburbs of LA and spent her teenage years living outside of Sacramento, CA. Sharon lived in Fairbanks, Alaska for five years before she moved to Seattle, Washington in 2002 and obtained a Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington in 2004. Sharon has been working as a medical social worker in the Emergency Department for the past three years and enjoys what she does. Sharon moved to NYC in this past November to continue her development as a medical social worker and to get involved with Nodutdol because of its awesome members, language classes, EEP program and NDD's community activism on both local and global levels.

NDD members got to know Sharon at the US Social Forum in June 2007 when we joined our ally organization Sahngnoksoo from Seattle, and converged in Atlanta as members of Korean Americans against War and Neoliberalism (KAWAN). Sharon was a member of Sahngnoksoo from its inception and served on the steering committee. Sahngnoksoo was Sharon’s first Korean community space that was not based out of church or religion and was inclusive and supportive of her queer identity. Additionally, SNS opened Sharon’s eyes and heart to the political and social struggles of Koreans living in Korea and abroad, e.g. Zainichi, and how Koreans living in the US can play an integral part of the people's struggles in Korea and internationally, as well as struggles of marginalized Koreans living in the US, e.g. adoptees, LGBTQ folks, immigrants and multi-racial folks. One of the things she misses most about Seattle is SNS, its presence in the Pacific Northwest, and the SNS members.

She finds peace and solace in the rural outdoors. Sharon believes in the power of the people and radical activism, though finds it harder to employ radical activism on a daily basis.

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