| FOUNDING EDITORS Eliaday Linda Nina Stefania Twizzle Weigook Saram |
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Angie in Texas Glennia Jae Ran Jooliyah Julie Mama Nabi Mary Sarah-Ji Shinyung |
Angie in Texas
Angie in Texas was born in Seoul but raised in San Antonio. She left for a few years, but came back for the barbeque and beer. She is the divorced/single mother to 2 Korean-Caucasian kids: AM (girl) and JC (boy), who are her heart and soul, respectively. She enjoys cooking all kinds of food, eating a variety of ethnic cuisines, reading about new trends in food, wonders what foods go best with red wine and enjoys the occasional single-malt scotch with and without kimchi. She is a closet sports fan and griller but doesn't have the attention span to really... oOo! something shiny!!! With a serious Master's of Arts in Intercultural Communication, she still finds the irony in her inability to fluently speak Korean.
Angie in Texas blogs about life's ups and downs and a little bit of all-around at her personal blog, Barbed and Wired.
Eliaday
Eliaday is a currently single mother working full-time outside the home at a university in Boston. A third generation Chinese American, she grew up in Massachusetts and after spending time in California has discovered that she is an east coast girl at heart. She digs sunny afternoons at the park, books by bell hooks, and the night. Her daughter, Tae, born in the year of the monkey, is half Chinese, half Korean.
Eliaday also blogs at her personal blog, Bloogs Blowing By and at Boston Progress Radio.
Glennia
Glennia is a mom, attorney, and writer from Northern California. She is half Korean and half Caucasian, and grew up being one of the few minority families in a small town in the Midwest. She writes a personal blog called The Silent I, which chronicles her family's adventures, both foreign and domestic. Glennia, her husband, and son have traveled to over 25 countries together, and were once featured in a Newsweek article on world-traveling families. She gets her political groove on as Managing Editor and Co-Founder of MOMocrats, and is a contributor to the Silicon Valley Moms Blog. Her writing has appeared in KoreAm Journal and various blogs. She has been a guest on the Career Mom Radio, Motherhood Uncensored, and MOMocrats podcasts and was a speaker at the BlogHer 2008 Conference.
Jae Ran
Jae Ran is a S. Korea-born/American raised, mother of 2; a late-bloomer, social worker, teacher, writer, graduate student, self-described outdoor cat and all-around truth-seeker.
Jae Ran also blogs at her personal blog, Harlow's Monkey.
Jooliyah
Jooliyah is writing to you all the way from Hawaii (or should she move, she wishes she was). She is married to a military psychologist (Captain J) and Ummah to energetic Noah and sweet Natalie. She's a second generation KA who benefited from Korean parents who actually listened to her and valued her opinion. Don't hold against her the fact that she is an attorney because she's currently a stay at home mom and when she returns to the work force someday, hopes to be the kind of attorney that might not get along with the other attorneys. Her favorite ways to spend the two hours or so of personal time she gets after her babies are asleep for the night are to watch korean dramas, blog, eat ice cream and watch korean dramas.
Jooliyah also blogs at her personal blog, If Ummah is Happy, Everybody Happy.
JulieJulie Kang was born in Seoul and quickly traded her Korean language skills for a Valley Girl accent when her family settled in southern CA when she was 6 years old. Often described as "too big for the room," Julie embarrasses her ummah daily with her unconventional humor and potty mouth. Julie works at home as a programmer for a Bay Area clinical database company. She is married to Tim, mother to Isaac and Emily, and they all live in Long Beach, CA in a 50's neighborhood straight out of "The Brady Bunch."
Julie also blogs at her personal blog, Geisha School Dropout.
Linda
Linda lives in the Seattle area and has been lightly blogging for the last few years. Until recently, she worked outside of the home while her very Korean mother-in-law provided (free!) childcare, as well as the permanent smell of kimchi in their house. In April, she and her husband made the huge decision for her to quit her job, stay home with their (then) 2 children and send MIL back to Korea. At the time, she was 5 months pregnant and didn't have health insurance for one month. Now child #3 is nearly 6 weeks old and she is missing the days when she could fit into her old clothes, receive a paycheck and go to the bathroom with the door closed. She speaks with her own Korean mother daily and once in a while, will have a conversation with her Korea father consisting mostly of grunts (him) and badly spoken Korean (her).
She writes about very random things on her personal blog, Keepin It Real, while trying to keep it real herself. Easier said than done when she has a 4 year old demanding to wear princess garb everyday, a 2 yr old creating Crayola Van Goghs on the walls of their new home and a 6 week old pooping every 5 minutes.
Linda is addicted to coffee, books and sleeping. She strongly dislikes princess garb, crayons and poop.
Mama Nabi
Mama Nabi was born in Korea and still holds her Korean passport/citizenship dear. She grew up in an American International Christian boarding school in India and came to the U.S. for college. She started blogging when she became a Kimchi Mama to her beautiful hapa daughter, Little Nabi, in 2005. She currently resides in Minnesota, juggling a life of single, divorced, working mom and looking for ways to expose her daughter to as much Kimchi-infused childhood as it’s possible in MN.
Mama Nabi also blogs at her personal blog, Mama Nabi's Hwe.
Mary
Mary lives in the
Bay Area with her kimchi boys (birthdays Nov. 2006 and June 2009) and
kimchi husband. Born in Korea, she immigrated to the states when she
was 10, effectively skipping the 5th grade. After residing in
O.C./L.A. during jr. high and high school, she moved to Northern
California to attend college (and to get away from family drama). She
is a proud Cal alumni (Go Bears!), obsessed with jewelry making, says
"hecka" quite naturally now, and loves all kimchi-related food (kimchi
chigae, kimchi fried rice, kimchi kimbop, kimchi jun, etc...). She works
full time for a large health care company and never brings lunch from
home. She is also an avid supporter of Compassion International and donates 50% of her jewelry sales to the organization.
Mary also blogs at her personal blog, Chronicles of a BART Rider.
Nina
Nina Moon is a second generation hapa mama to her two sons and one of the founding editors of Kimchi Mamas.
Sarah-Ji
Sarah-Ji was born in Seoul, Korea and immigrated to the north side of Chicago with her family in the late 1970s. She has been taking photos in one form or another since she was a teenager. She bought her first digital camera in 2002, and as a result, her photographic documentation of life became much more compulsive (and affordable). Around the same time, she jumped into the world of blogging, through which she has been sharing her photos and stories of everyday life online.
She lives in Chicago with her homebrewing drummer husband Ted and their rambunctious preschool-aged daughter Cadence. When she's not taking photos, Sarah-Ji daydreams about Metropolis lattés, the Pacific Northwest and being an urban farmer. Her passions are mindful parenting, indie music, creating/finding community, and reconstructing t-shirts into dresses for her daughter.
She posts photos and blogs daily at www.sarah-ji.com and is a founding contributor at Shutter Sisters, a global community of women photographers.
Shinyung
"All I ever wanted was an ordinary life."
So says the protagonist Eleanore from The Slaves of NY. An ordinary life is nothing to scoff at. Especially when you spent your early years growing up in Flushing, NY surrounded by Asians, high rises, and all things immigrant, where you dreamed of living the life of a Judy Blume character who flees to the suburbs to swim in a real outdoor pool and roller skate in a roller rink. Only to discover upon moving to the suburbs of Houston to find yourself surrounded by blonds and brunettes and very few of your own kind - albeit in a neighborhood with a pool and a roller rink - and you start to pepper your speech with y'all and don a poofy perm. Only then do you realize how elusive this ordinariness can be.
Mama-to-be Shinyung seeks happiness in the ordinariness that is her green hobbit house, her rascal husband, and their pesky yellow lab Sherlock. Her most fulfilling moments are lived on the couch reading The Huffington Post, on the beach watching Sherlock romp in the waves, and behind enormous bowls of slurpy Vietnamese noodles. She currently lives in San Francisco.
She also blogs at Because You Never Know...
Stefania
Stefania Pomponi Butler aka CityMama is proud mother to "Bunny" and "Wallie" and wife to "J."
Stefania Pomponi Butler is a professional blogger/writer/editor/producer who covers parenting, politics, food, pop culture, and green issues with a cheeky twist.
In addition to writing her personal blog, the popular, long-running parenting blog CityMama, Stefania is one of the Founding Editors of Kimchi Mamas (her culture and identity site) and MOMocrats.com (a progressive political blog). She spoke at BlogHer 07 on the subject of professional blogging and at Blogher Business 08 on pitching to bloggers of color.
As a freelancer, Stefania has published articles in the November 2007 and July 2008 issues of Good Housekeeping and the July 2008 issue of Redbook. Stefania also runs a successful freelance blog consulting business.
CityMama, with over 3,000 RSS subscribers, is a Bloglines Parenting "QuickPick," and MOMocrats was one of the few political blogs to get a coveted credential to cover the DNC.
In addition to the publications above, Stefania's work has appeared in various parenting magazines, in The New York Times, KoreAm Journal (twice), and on Pacific Time on NPR.
Stefania was born in Honolulu, HI and has lived in Rome, Italy; Atherton, CA; Menlo Park, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Belmont, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Portland, OR. She currently resides in the heart of Silicon Valley where she blogs from the comfort of her bedroom/office.
Twizzle
Twizzle, a hapa-Korean mother of one daughter, hails from Southern California, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1980s. She works full-time as a fundraiser for higher education and enjoys reading, yoga, and the out-of-doors when she isn’t cooking dinner, walking the dog, doing laundry, or sleeping.
Twizzle also blogs at her personal blog, Baboon of Magnesia.
Weigook Saram
Weigook Saram did not know what she was getting into when she married a Korean-American man, but she has learned a lot about Korean culture by trial and error, mostly error. The birth of her daughter four years ago caused her to start thinking more about race, culture and identity, and she started blogging soon afterward.
Weigook Saram also blogs at her personal blog, Kitchen Fire.
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