About Yejin Lee
Yejin Lee (she/they) is a queer, genderfluid, neurodivergent, and second generation Corean anti-oppression facilitator and coach who supports individuals and institutions in proactively choosing and materially committing to long-term transformation towards liberatory praxis.
Yejin draws from their professional experiences in nonprofit community organizing, fundraising, governance, strategy, and operations, and also from her informal roles as staff advocate and generative nuisance. Yejin is a lifelong student of abolition, anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, disability justice and anti-fascism. She is passionate about integrating care, wholeness, and directness into all spaces, and invites softness, lightness, and play when needed and appropriate!
Why Jeong?
For the last decade, Yejin has been on a journey of return. For years, despite her active participation in racial equity & justice work, she avoided processing her Asian-American identity, her Koreanness, and her painful experiences of anti-Asian racism. Yejin has been working to ground herself in her individual, familial, and cultural histories in order to more properly commit to community care and liberation.
This is how Jeong Coaching & Consulting LLC was born.
In 2020, Yejin came across a remarkable Instagram account called han_soom that shared a beautiful post about the following Korean concepts (quoted below):
Han: “…is that indescribable combination of pain, grief, rage, anxiety, and fear that all Korean people feel. It is born out of centuries of invasion, colonialism, occupation, and war on the peninsula, passed down through our parents, living in our Korean blood as we inhabit all corners of the diaspora today.”
Jeong: “Han’s complementary emotion -- a deep care and responsibility for one another that we are born with.”
“Jeong & han constitutes the Korean will to live.
To ground ourselves in jeong/han is to understand our struggle as Korean people as not unique or extraordinary, but rather as one with the struggle of all colonized people across the globe.”
Jeong reminds Yejin that equity & justice work is always rooted in community.
Alignment is Crucial.
With all of these principles in mind, it is important to Yejin that both she and her prospective clients feel deep mutual alignment in values and approach. Meaningful alignment will lead to a deeper and more generative engagement.
Yejin’s Approach
PURPOSE
The primary purpose of Jeong Coaching & Consulting LLC is to provide support towards the survival and liberation of multiply-marginalized by guiding them in finding values-embodied pathways for and beyond their careers, and by building their capacity to strategize around and survive inequitable experiences within institutions.
The secondary purpose is to fortify the protection of marginalized cuties in institutions, communities, and other shared/social spaces.
Yejin works to fulfill their liberation-oriented purpose through the following services:
Education
Tailored workshops for organizational stakeholders
Yejin’s own workshops
Coaching
Individual coaching for multiply-marginalized cutie comrades who need support building strategies to survive and move through/beyond experiences of oppressive harm
Individual coaching for leaders who would like to bridge the gap between their espoused values and their everyday actions
Small group coaching to support the fortification and protection of multiply-marginalized sweeties in organizations and community spaces
Organizational Consulting
Organizational audits centering roots & routes of oppressive harm
Strategic planning to deepen material transformation towards equity & justice
Facilitation of generative conflict towards repair, accountability & transformation