Life and Transition of Community Organizing w/ Steve Moon

(S4, EP 11) Longtime Korean-American community organizer & activist Steve Moon joined me for this week's episode.  For years, Steve has been cultivating Asian / Black and Brown community solidarity on issues with immigration, police brutality, gentrification, among others in Chicago.  He speaks about his experiences in community organizing and youth development, and how he has since transitioned since being a father.  He also spoke about his experience mentoring the late Asian-American hip hop artist John Vietnam Nguyen who died in a drowning accident in 2012 at the age of 19, and what his legacy has meant to the Vietnamese / Asian American community in Chicago since then.  Check out more on this episode! 

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Bio:

For the past twenty years, Steve Hosik Moon has been committed to youth development, community organizing, advocacy, and cultural work, mostly in Chicago with immigrant and refugee communities. He has recently entered philanthropy and is currently the Director of Elgin Programs at the Grand Victoria Foundation. Steve is also a Board Member of Kuumba Lynx.

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Season 4 is sponsored by Red Scarf Revolution (RSR).  RSR aims to bring awareness to the tragedies, atrocities and cultural destruction the Cambodian people endured from 1975 to 1979 under the Khmer Rouge regime and how that period impacts us today.  With that awareness, Red Scarf Revolution advocates the silenced art, music, culture,  and language, with designs that incite the resiliency of the Cambodian people.  Visit them at www.redscarfrevolution.com to check out their merch line and to learn more about their work, or follow their Instagram at red_scarf_revolution or on their Facebook.