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Information, events and advocacy for metro DC Korean adoptees, adoptive families with Korean children and friends in the Korean American community.

Chapters in Cincinnati, Seattle, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh.

In This Issue

Living Loud Adoptee Artists June 1 in DC

KAAN 2014 June 27-29 in Minneapolis

Living Loud: Unabashed Identity Exploration June 1 in DC

Korean Focus is thrilled to join

Land of Gazillion Adoptees, Lost Daughters and The Barker Foundation

in hosting

Living Loud: Unabashed Identity Exploration

Sunday, June 1, 2014, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Busboys and Poets

1025 5th Street NW, Washington, DC

Join a spirited collective of writers and artists for an evening of creative expression and readings focused on the search for self.

Opening Remarks

Ambassador Susan Jacobs

Special Advisor to the Secretary for Children's Issues

Readings by

Jennifer Anastasi

Aselefech Evans

Rosita Gonzalez

Rebecca Hawkes

Michelle Lahti

Karen Pickell

Julie Stromberg

Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston

Music by

Superior Cling

Participating authors will be available to discuss their readings and share more about their recent writing projects.

Lost Daughters: Writing Adoption From a Place of Empowerment & Peace

This anthology is a collection of writings by the authors of the Lost Daughters blog. Lost Daughters is an independent, collaborative writing project that was founded in 2011 in an effort to give an accessible writing platform for adopted women. Boasting nearly 30 authors, Lost Daughters is written and edited entirely by adopted women, several of whom balance multiple roles in adoption and foster care along with being adopted. The blog's name was inspired by author and adoptee B.J. Lifton's concept of one's self becoming lost and found throughout the experience of being adopted.

The Declassified Adoptee: Essays of an Adoption Activist

Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston is an adult adoptee, social worker, author, and speaker. She debuted in the adoption activism community as a blogger whose writing processed both her personal and political experience of being adopted. Throughout this book, readers bear witness to key moments in the unfolding of an adoptee from a quiet contemplative to an outspoken advocate for the rights of adoptees and their loved ones.

Gazillion Voices

Created by Land of Gazillion Adoptees founder, Korean adoptee Kevin Haebeom Vollmers, Gazillion Voices Online Magazine examines that topics and issues important to the adoption community and present these views in the mainstream. This monthly online magazine ups the ante in the adoption space by bringing the voices of critically thinking members of the adoption network, especially adoptees, into the broader community.

For additional information contact Korean Focus or visit the Living Loud website at http://www.livinglouddc.com/

KAAN 2014 Conference June 27-29 in Minneapolis

KAAN 2014 Conference

June 27-29, 2014

DoubleTree by Hilton Minneapolis - Park Place

1500 Park Place Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55416

Since 1999, KAAN has provided annual conferences in the U.S. or Korea. These conferences are unique assemblies of Korean-born adoptees of all ages as well as family through birth, adoption or marriage, other Koreans and Korean-Americans, social workers, adoptees from other backgrounds, community leaders, and more. Through gathering together, we find what we have in common and where we can help one another.

KAAN conferences provide 30+ sessions on race and identity, family relationships, parenting tools, search and reunion, etc. Presenters include authors, educators, activists, therapists, and grassroots leaders. Each block includes an adoptee-only session as well as many choices open to all. Cultural and social activities are offered as well as vendors, exhibits, and film screenings.

This year's KAAN Conference venue, the DoubleTree Minneapolis Park Place, is near downtown and the Mall of America with shops in the immediate vicinity as well. Complimentary parking. Several shuttle/taxi options from the airport, details to come closer to the conference. Ask for the KAAN rate : $99/night+tax for reservations made before June 5; also valid three days prior/post conference. Reserve early as the KAAN block of rooms will fill quickly. Reservations: 1-800-245-9190.

KAAN: The Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network

http://www.kaanet.org/