
Kyung Jun
President
BIOGRAPHY
Kyung Jun and her family immigrated to US in 1972 from Jeju Island of Korea.
Growing up and being the eldest child of 5 children back in the early 70’s brought many challenges especially when there weren’t many people who looked liked her and her family.
But the challenges gave her chance to grow her faith and inner strength to carry on to leadership roles in our community to give hands to others.
She was able to finish college after her children grew up due to getting married, having 3 children and owning small business of beauty salon in her mid 20’s until present. She was able to take few sets of mini medical school sessions at Georgetown University as well.
Her leadership started being the principal of the Holy Mountain Sunday School for children of k-12 school aged children.
Then onto being president of Korean Jeju Association of Washington for few years and worked with other Korean organizations to support cultural events and information seminars.
Her advocacy for protecting children, disabled, seniors led to hold positions in few organizations.
President of Korean Senior Association, Potomac Square Condominium Association, helping to hold events for teenage suicide prevention. Also Medicaid advisory committee member of VA serving 2 million recipients. Most recent position to be a president of Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans of VA.
Her belief of electing right kind of political officials to represent our voices is so important that she got involved with federal and state level elections. She held and assisted for different levels of elections and organized many day of actions during election time. Also organized visits for our delegation to mega Korean church in the area.
She was chosen as one of the change maker of VA where her story and leadership is recognized in Library of VA. She is also certified mediator with Supreme Court of VA to give diversity representation in court system.
Most recent activities includes getting invitations from Senators and Congressmen to events for Korean Presidents, Ambassadors, White House briefing, joint sessions to represent Korean/AAPI communities. Holding events for women and education matters with Senator Kaine, Legislative receptions for our delegation made possible with support from Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans of VA board. Also in process of advocating for all of the children to be able to learn more about Asian American history in k-12th grade.