#14 Interview with Sarah Kim Randolph

Guest: Sarah Kim Randolph
Interviewer: Jessica Conte
Recording Date: December 16, 2007
Length: 68 minutes

In this special interview, foreign correspondent Jessica Conte interviews Sarah Kim Randolph, a 29 year-old Korean-American adoptee from Seattle via Kansas City, Kansas and Omaha, Nebraska. A certain friend of hers here at Canaries lovingly refers to her as “the Queen of the Adoptees” for her exorbitant role in multiple adoptee organizations and enterprises. In this interview, Sarah shares poignant anecdotes about growing up an only child in a White household in the mid-Western Bible Belt, slowly coming to gain Asian American friends, self-imposed pressures to follow Asian American model minority stereotypes, and subsequent liberation from them. In regard to her life in Korea, she shares stories of navigating the Korean dating and working scenes, meeting her birth family, the gender gap, as well as her thoughts on Korea’s potential for social change.

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#13 Interview with Jane Jeong Trenka

Guest: Jane Jeong Trenka
Interviewer: Nari
Recording Date: March 17, 2008
Length: 59 minutes
 
Jane Jeong Trenka is a Korean American adoptee who has been living in Seoul since 2004.  She published her personal memoir, The Language of Blood, in 2003, and co-edited Outsider’s Within: Writings on Transracial Adoption, which was released in 2006.  Currently, she is in the editing stages for her second book, Fugitive Visions.  In this episode, Jane discusses her transformative contributions to the adoptee community and greater Korean society through her writing, the development of a commission for Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK), and her hopes for creating a Center for Reproductive Justice.  For access to Jane’s wealth of knowledge and information on her endeavors for social justice, see her blog at: www.jjtrenka.wordpress.com or her homepage at: www.thelanguageofblood.com.

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