KAM Banquet guests, from left: Yoonju Park, director of Korean Service Center; Channel 5 Eyewitness News Reporter Susanna Song, Master of Ceremony; Hyun Sook Han, Korean adoption pioneer; Kim Jackson, photographer and author of the “HERE” book on Minnesota Korean adoptees; Angela Copeland, an adoptee who spoke on how a spiritual journey to Korea changed her life; and Pastor Sung Chul Park, director of KAM. (AAP staff photo by Tom LaVenture)

By TOM LAVENTURE
AAP staff writer

MINNEAPOLIS (August 21, 2010) – Korean Adoptees Ministry celebrated a “Decade of Making Deep Connections” with a gala fundraising event last weekend at Ramada Plaza. KAM, a nonprofit organization is based in Roseville and has served as a resource for adoptees and their families.

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Los Angeles-based Comedian Amy Anderson will be in the Twin Cities to perform at The Joke Joint, in the old Thunderbird Hotel at 2300 E American Blvd in Bloomington the weekend of April 22-24. Anderson is a Minnesota native and a Korean adoptee. (Photo by Bill Devlin)

By TOM LAVENTURE

AAP staff writer

Amy Anderson waited until after college to following a calling to stand up comedy – something she said was central to her life all along – but did not consider it as a vocation until her ‘now or never’ moment came after college. Now, 14 years later Anderson is at the top of her game and her act has changed to reflect her life as an Asian American woman, a Los Angeles based entertainer with roots as an adult Korean adoptee from Minnesota, and as a mother to a beautiful 3-year-old daughter.

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HERE: A Visual History of Adopted Koreans in Minnesota

Kim Jackson and Heewon Lee

Yeong & Yeong Books

Full Color Paperback,108 pages, $20.00

Arts & Cultural Heritage Series 2010 presents the “Here” Book Release & Signing, Saturday, April 17, 2010, from 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408.

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