Brenda Paik Sunoo is a third generation Korean-American. She is a writer, an award-winning freelance journalist, and a former senior editor of Workforce Magazine. During the 1970s, Brenda and her husband were anti-war and human rights activists, particularly advocating for Korean unification. Paik Sunoo co-founded the non-profit organization Compassion At Work. Biography Paik Sunoo graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Sociology. In 1999, she received her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Her memoir on loss and healing, Seaweed and Shamans: Inheriting the Gifts of Grief, has been published in English, Korean and Vietnamese. Her photo essay collection "Vietnam Moment" conveys her knowledge of and affection for the Vietnamese people. The photos in the book were taken during her stay at Vietnam from 2002 to 2008. The book is also printed in three languages: Korean, Vietnamese and English. Books Beyond the crucible: Responses to anti-Asian hatred, Ecumenical Working Group of Asian Pacific Americans and Canadians, 1994 Da Lat: City of Eternal Spring, The Gioi Publishers, 2004 Seaweed and Shamans, Seoul Selection, 2006 Vietnam Moment, Seoul Selection, 2009 Moon Tides: Jeju Island Grannies of the Sea, 2011 Stone House on Jeju Island Improvising Life Under a Healing Moon, September 2018 References Awards Maggie Award recognition in the Public Service category External links Compassion At Work website Living people American writers of Korean descent American women journalists Women memoirists American women non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women American activist journalists