Women Cross DMZ | Ending The Korean War, Reuniting Families

Women Cross DMZ | Ending The Korean War, Reuniting Families

https://www.womencrossdmz.org/echo-hyunsook-elizabeth-cho/

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Echo (Hyunsook Elizabeth Cho)

Echo is an organizer for Women Cross DMZ.

A longtime activist and organizer, she is the Representative of Washington Butterfly for Hope (Nabi DC), a grassroots organization working on “comfort women” issues. She is also the Co-Chair of the committee for the Washington Statue of Peace in Annandale, Va., which symbolizes the victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military during World War II.

She was born in the Republic of Korea and immigrated to Fairfax, Va., at the age of 12. She became active in Korean-American issues when she was 14, learning modern Korean and Korean-American history as well as Korean traditional percussion music known as samulnori.

In addition to chanting and playing Korean drums at various rallies, she is a freelance interpreter and consultant, a board member of Korean Queer and Transgender Organization in DC (KQT DC), an advocacy member of National Association of Korean Americans (NAKA), and a mother of two lively girls, Eileen Jung and Justice Jung.

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Our team

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Our Team

We are women peacemakers from around the world walking for peace in Korea. We are Nobel Peace Laureates, feminist authors, peace activists, human rights lawyers, professors, former parliamentarians, faith leaders, humanitarian aid workers, filmmakers, artists, a retired Army Colonel and a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Staff

Christine Ahn

Executive Director

Hyun Lee

U.S. National Organizer

Kathleen Ok-soo Richards

Communications Director

Elizabeth Beavers

Advisor on Advocacy

Catherine Killough

Advocacy and Leadership Coordinator

Echo (Hyunsook Elizabeth Cho)

Organizer

Susan Yohn

Administrative and Financial Director

Jacquelyn Wells

Admin Coordinator

Margaret Gerhart

Designer

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Board Members

Aiyoung Choi

Board President

Wendi Deetz

Board Treasurer

Nan Kim, PH.D.

Committee Member

Ann Wright

Committee Member

Amelia Wu

Committee Member

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Advisory Board Members

Kozue Akibayashi, Professor, Doshisha University, Women’s Int’l League for Peace & Freedom, Japan 

Coleen Baik, Former Senior Designer, Twitter, USA

Medea Benjamin, Co-founder, Code Pink, USA

Liz Bernstein, Executive Director, Nobel Women’s Initiative, Canada

Marie Berry, Professor, University of Denver, Inclusive Global Leadership Institute, USA 

Abigail Disney, Filmmaker and Philanthropist, USA 

Cynthia Enloe, Professor, Clark University 

Jodie Evans, Co-founder, Code Pink

Ewa Eriksson Fortier, Retired Humanitarian Aid Worker, Sweden 

Meri Joyce, Peace Boat, Global Partnership for the prevention of Armed conflict Northeast Asia Regional Coordinator, Australia/Japan 

Eleana Kim, Professor, University of California, Irvine

Suzy Kim, Professor, Rutgers University 

Namhee Lee, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles 

Sung-ok Lee, Secretary General, United Methodist Women 

M. Brinton Lykes, Professor, Boston University, Center for Human Rights  

Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate, Northern Ireland 

Liza Maza, Gabriela Women’s Alliance, Philippines 

Lisa Natividad, Guahan Coalition for Peace & Justice, Guahan 

Hye-Jung Park, Media Activist, USA

Jay Song, Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia

Yifat Susskind, Executive Director, MADRE, USA

Alice Walker, Author and Activist, USA 

Cora Weiss, Representative to the UN, International Peace Bureau, USA 

Cindy Wiesner, Coordinator, Grassroots Global Justice, USA

Ji-Yeon Yuh, Professor, Northwestern University, USA 

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