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.
January 10, 2009 at 12:51 am |
Jessica,
Have you ventured to Atlanta, GA to continue your studies? I have alot of Asian friends and have become interested in the adoption programs we have in Atlanta.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks,
darrian