As part of our celebration of APAHM, the AAPI subcommittee and the Women of GumGum invite you to come and hear from Ida Soon-ok Hart, a Korean War Baby, who will share her unique and inspiring stories.

Speaker Bio: Ida Soon-ok Hart was born to an African-American father and a Korean mother during the Korean War in Korea in 1953. In her early childhood, she experienced racism in her Korean village for being a Mixed Blood Child. Later in her youth, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee to live with her father where she experienced discrimination on multiple fronts in the 1960s segregated American South. She is currently a retired educator and writer with a BA from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and an MS in Education from Mount St. Mary College, Los Angeles. She is currently writing her memoir, “The Mountains of San-gok Dong.” Two stories, “My Dear Mother” and “Citizenship,” have been published.