VIVIAN MABUNI
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A podcast created for Asian American & Pacific Islander women on leadership and culture. I’ve wanted to carve out a space for AAPI women to explore and validate living in both Eastern and Western worlds. Each week we will celebrate our heritage and highlight our history as we explore our AAPI journeys, parts that we are proud of and those of pain.

 
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CATCH UP ON SEASON 1,2 & 3

Loved this conversation with @brandi_ebersole ! Go check out Episode 3 of our adoption series! This Someday is Here series is sponsored by Denver Seminary. To learn more about Denver Seminary’s programs and community, visit DenverSeminary
🎉EPISODE ALERT🎉 Go check out this conversation with @brandi_ebersole ! Brandi gives us a wonderful perspective of the life of a transracial adoptee AND as a mom of adoptees! Go listen to episode 3 of our Adoption Series and take our listener’
Go check out Episode 2 of our Adoption Series! You will not want to miss this conversation with @shannanwrites !
New episode alert! 🎉 Want to hear a vulnerable and open conversation about adoption from the perspective of an adoptive parent? Then you will not want to miss this conversation with @shannanwrites !
Amazing conversation with @sandhyaoaks ! Be sure to check it out!
Go check out episode 1 of the May Adoption series with @sandhyaoaks !
The May Adoption Series has officially launched!! We’re kicking off the series with @sandhyaoaks ! Make sure to check out this episode and subscribe to Someday is Here! 🎉
🎉 Someday is Here Adoption Series starts TOMORROW- this Tuesday! Make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss the first episode with @sandhyaoaks ! 🎉
So much wisdom from @thebonniegray on this week’s episode!

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Episode 23 - Susie Gamez

 
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EPISODE 23 w/ Susie Gamez

You might remember her as a host from the Someday is Here LIVE EVENT we had in February. The brilliant @susiekgamez is our final guest for Season 2. Listen to get to know Susie better and hear our conversation about her ethnic journey while growing up in Canada. We bonded over growing up with our Grandma’s, some of the unique challenges raising kids who are mixed race, and how seeing someone who looked like her as a keynote speaker shifted her mindset for what was possible #representationmatters. Susie is such a gifted leader who brings a wealth of experience working in multi-ethnic spaces. Can’t wait for you to hear our conversation!

LEARN MROE ABOUT SUSIE

Susiegamez.com
IG: @susiekgamez
APU Chapel talk on Diversity

Susie is Canadian by birth, Korean by heritage, Mexican by marriage and American by immigration. She is passionate about matters surrounding reconciliation, justice and the Gospel. Susie and her husband Marcos met at Fuller Theological Seminary while getting their M.A. in Intercultural Studies and now have 4 beautiful LatAsian babies. After serving as a youth pastor and church planter in South Central Los Angeles for 14 years, Susie now lives in Long Beach, CA where she serves on staff with Light and Life Christian Fellowship. 

FAVORITE ASIAN COMFORT FOOD

Korean street food like Tteokbokki (spicy rice cake)

LEADERSHIP LESSON

  • “Don’t go looking for the world to tell you what to do or for what it needs for you. Recognize the inherent value that you have and hopefully that’s rooted in the right things for them and know that you have something to offer.”

  • Howard Thurman: “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

DID YOU KNOW?

Susan Ahn Cuddy was a trailblazing Korean American woman in the U.S. military. Her parents were the first married Korean couple to immigrate to the United States after the U.S. opened up the country to Korean Immigration. After initially being rejected for being “Oriental”, she was later accepted into the U.S. Navy. She became the first Asian American woman to become a WAVE, a program that allowed women to become enlisted officers for the duration of the war to free up men for combat positions. Susan worked for the United States Naval Reserve as a link trainer and became the Navy’s first gunnery officer. 

Outside her career in the military she continued to blaze trails. In her personal life, she defied miscegenation laws by marrying a white man, which was illegal in Virginia where she lived at the time. Cuddy became an intelligence officer breaking codes for the Navy and later joined the NSA, where she ran a think tank of 300 linguists and other experts gathering Russian intelligence. During the civil rights movement when her travels took her to the segregated South where she could have “passed”, she instead would demonstrate solidarity by sitting in the back of the bus with black people, using colored bathrooms, and comply with Jim Crow laws to make a statement about her race and support those who did not have a choice.

Susan Ahn Cuddy is remembered as a secret-keeper, a brave officer and a community icon, one of a generation of Asian-Americans who rushed to serve their country despite the racism they faced at every turn.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Parasite article:
https://tropicsofmeta.com/2020/02/17/reading-colonialism-in-parasite/

 
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