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Erik: How do you use your journalism and reporting experience to effectively communicate the
urgency around helping elderly communities in big cities?
Kyung: When I think about the kind of training that IÕve received in journalism and then
communications itÕs a privilege to have had those kinds of experiences and I also feel
that itÕs a responsibility for me to use that in a constructive way. I think a lot
of people forget about that responsibility. For me I feel that those moments where I can
be a spokesperson for elderly people who are living in isolation who donÕt have the language,
who donÕt have the cultural assimilation, that I can speak for people like them, that
it really what all my training and my background has been for. I mean there are those moments,
there have been moments when I have been able to speak out on behalf of Asian women who
are battered, who have experienced violence in their lives and who canÕt ask for help
or who cannot demand to be safe, who can say whatÕs happening to them is not right. I
think those are those moments that all of us who have had so many blessings in our lives
and have had so many ways that weÕve been enriched that we can give back in that way.
ItÕs very, very important. And itÕs not just a act of generosity, I think itÕs really
an act of duty.