The Strange Loneliness of Reinvention
Why becoming someone new sometimes feels less like freedom and more like being unseen. Notes from the in-between.
A short version
I was born in Korea and moved to the United States as a child. Much of my life has been spent between cultures, languages, and identities. Public service and advocacy. Elected office. Communication, business, creative work. The long-form work of building several lives in a row.
I lived through 9/11 in New York. I served as an elected trustee. I learned what public scrutiny does to language, and what it costs to keep speaking anyway.
Now I'm completing graduate studies at USC Annenberg, learning to write about what I've actually lived. Memory, identity, cultural inheritance, survival, and the strangeness of reinvention.
"The second act is quieter than the first, and stranger."
