Speaker• Storyteller • Identity Guide
Turning lived experience into lasting resilience
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Hi! I’m Chana- a Korean adoptee and American Jewish woman.
I'm a speaker, writer, and coach exploring identity and belonging through culture, faith, and lived experience.
My work lives at the intersection of story, identity, and the search for home.
Born in South Korea and adopted at the age of two, I grew up moving between cultures, faiths, and identities - often before I had language for what I was searching for. That searching shaped my spiritual journey, leading me from the United States to Israel, deep questioning, and Orthodox Jewish practice.
Nearly forty years after my birth, I reunited with my Korean birth family. An experience that unsettled and reshaped how I understand belonging, faith, and home.
I am a wife, a mother of four daughters, and a lifelong seeker, still learning how to live inside the questions that formed me.
"Mastering the art of processing life while living life." is more than a mantra- it's the practice I return to as I build resilience, meaning, and connection.
Through speaking, storytelling, coaching, and facilitation, I explore identity, relationships, and lived experience across individuals, families, and communities.
WHAT I DO
I work across speaking, storytelling, coaching, and facilitation to help individuals, couples, families, and communities explore identity, communication, and lived experience.
Speaking
Keynotes, storytelling, and workshops exploring identity, belonging, adoption, communication, and faith.
For conferences, organizations, and community events.
Coaching
Individual and relationship coaching focused on identity, communication, emotional understanding, and life transitions.
For individuals, couples, and families.
Voices from the Room
These reflections come from audiences, collaborators, and event organizers.
Chana shares her story with clarity, vulnerability, and grace of a poet. Hearing her journey is fascinating. While our lived experience differ, her themes of longing, uncertainty, hope, and a desire to connect certainly resonate with me, and bring together all of us going through the human experience
Robyn Shrater Seemann
Producing Artistic Director, Artists Circle
Let's Connect
This work lives in conversation.
This work lives in conversation—on stages, in workshops, and in private sessions.
If you feel drawn to explore speaking, storytelling, or coaching, I’d be glad to hear from you.
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