Tuesday, June 9, 2020 @ 6 pm EDT / 5 pm CDT / 3 pm PDT

Tuesday, June 9, 2020 @ 6 pm EDT / 5 pm CDT / 3 pm PDT

KOREAN TRANSLATION WILL BE PROVIDED.

Featured Panelists-

Jeanie Chang:

Jeanie will be a Counseling Psychology doctoral student at Loyola University Chicago starting Fall of 2020. She received her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin (hook'em) and her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Wheaton College. She has a heart for serving the Asian American community and her clinical experiences include working with clients in both hospital and private practice settings. Her current research interests include Asian American experiences of immigration and internalized racism.

Raymond Chang:

Raymond Chang is the President of the Asian American Christian Collaborative, a pastor, and author.  Along with regularly preaching God’s Word, he speaks widely throughout the country on issues pertaining to Christianity and culture and race and faith. He lives in Chicagoland serving as a campus minister at Wheaton College, teaching on Discipleship and Spiritual Formation.  Prior to entering vocational ministry, Ray worked in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. He is happily married to Jessica Chang, who serves as the Chief Advancement and Partnerships Officer of the Field School.

Alexander Jun:

Alexander Jun, Ph.D., is professor of higher education at Azusa Pacific University. He was a TEDx speaker in 2012, global fellow with the Center for Khmer Studies in Cambodia in 2010, research fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, in 2016, and a 2018 scholar in residence at Belmont University in Tennessee. Dr. Jun is managing editor of the Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and author of several books. His latest book with Christopher Collins, White Evolution: The Constant Struggle for Racial Consciousness, will be published later  this month. A ruling elder at New Life Presbyterian Church in Fullerton, California, he was elected moderator for the 45th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America in 2017. He is married to Jeany and together they have three teenagers.

Kathy Khang:

Kathy Khang is a writer, speaker, and yoga teacher. She is the author of Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent & How to Speak Up (IVP, 2018), a contributing editor for Sojourners magazine, the coauthor of More Than Serving Tea (IVP, 2006), and the contributing author to the forthcoming Alabaster Guided Meditations, Psalms Vol. 1 and 2 to be published late-2020 in collaboration between Alabaster Co. and IVP. Currently she is the vice board chair of Evangelicals for Social Action. Ms. Khang was a newspaper reporter in Green Bay and Milwaukee, WI before spending more than two decades in vocational ministry where she focused on leadership development and training leaders in diversity and justice. She holds a BS in journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. She is based in the north suburbs of Chicago and is honored to be mom to three incredible young adults. Ms. Khang blogs at www.kathykhang.com , is on Twitter and Instagram as @mskathykhang, and posts at www.facebook.com/kathykhangauthor.

Josephine Kim:

Josephine Kim, P.h.D., is faculty member in Prevention Science and Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on bridging the cultural gap between immigrant parents and their US-born children through research, practice, and consultation. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a National Certified Counselor who has been called upon during national crises, deployed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the federal government to work with Katrina victims during the summer of 2006 and Virginia Tech in the spring of 2007, directly following the campus violence. She founded Mustard Seed Generation in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting to raise awareness of mental health issues that affect the Korean American population and intercultural and intergenerational conflicts that arise in Korean American families.

Scott Hwang (Moderator): 

Scott is the Associate Director of the Program on Intergroup Relations and Lecturer at the University of Michigan. Previously, he served as the Director of Multicultural Student Programs at Messiah College. He received his MA in Higher Education at Geneva College and is currently completing his Doctorate of Education in Social Comparative Analysis in Education at the University of Pittsburgh.