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Syracuse University announces recipients of 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Unsung Heroes Awards
Friday, January 11, 2008
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Kelly Homan Rodoski
(315) 443-5381

The Syracuse University Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee has selected the recipients of the 2008 Unsung Heroes Awards. The awards are presented to members of the SU and greater Syracuse communities who exemplify the spirit, life and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., but who are not widely recognized for their efforts.

This year's recipients are Lakesa Allen, a junior at Corcoran High School in Syracuse; Eunyoung Choi and Junghoon Oh, a doctoral candidate and master's degree candidate, respectively, in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; Gertrude Danzy, a staff member at Syracuse University and advocate in the Syracuse community; Ann Tiffany, a Central New York peace activist; and Danya Wellmon and Betsy Wiggins, co-founders of Women Transcending Boundaries (WTB).

The recipients will be honored during the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Dinner on Sunday, Jan. 20, in the Carrier Dome. The celebratory dinner will include an evening program and a keynote address by Barbara Ransby, a historian, writer and longtime political activist who is an associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Eunyoung Choi and Junghoon Oh -- inspired by MLK to serve others with a 'a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love'

Syracuse University graduate students Choi and Oh first met during the summer of 2006 at the Korean Church of Syracuse on East Genesee St. Since then, they have spent countless hours together helping three Asian refugee families begin new lives in Syracuse. In addition, Choi and Oh have spearheaded efforts at their church to establish a computer-training program and English language program for refugees.

Community activism is not new for either Choi or Oh. Choi, a geography doctoral student in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has traveled to Korea and China on several occasions to work with Asian refugees. In 2006, she worked for 10 months in China as a Mercy Corps volunteer. Choi was also active in environmental issues as an undergraduate at Korea University. Before coming to Syracuse, Oh, an international relations master's student at the Maxwell School, spent several years tutoring impoverished students in a rural area of Korea and working on programs through his church to help homeless people living in Seoul City find jobs and obtain food, clothing and medical care.

When Choi and Oh began attending the Korean Church of Syracuse, the Rev. Yong Ju Jee quickly recognized the unique talents the two students could bring to the Asian refugee resettlement program, a cooperative effort between the church and Interfaith Works of Central New York.

"Both of them from a young age have trained and volunteered to help marginalized people in society," Jee says. "At the same time, they also have done a remarkable job of integrating and maintaining a balance between academics and activism."

Choi and Oh were appointed as the church's liaisons with Interfaith Works. The pair coordinated the search for homes for the families and the collection of household goods, clothing and food. After the families arrived in Syracuse, Choi and Oh continued to help them almost every day in numerous ways, including providing transportation and interpretation services, teaching them to shop and to understand the monetary system, helping to enroll their children in school and teaching them how to obtain medical care.

While the tasks were seemingly endless, both Choi and Oh say the rewards were greater. Choi, who was pregnant with her first baby when she started working with the refugee resettlement program, says the families became like her own during a difficult time in her life. Her husband is a humanitarian aid worker in China. "They helped me when I was pregnant much more than I helped them," says Choi, whose baby is now three months old.

Oh, whose wife and 20-month-old baby only recently joined him in Syracuse, says that while he was helping families here, others were helping his family in Korea. Choi and Oh also say that nothing could have been accomplished without the dedication and support of the entire congregation of the Korean Church of Syracuse. Congregation members have provided funding for the computer lab and training program and are also helping to establish the English language training for refugees. Both programs will be open to all refugees who have settled in the Syracuse area.

"The members of our church have very caring hearts," Choi says. "We just asked and they provided."

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