Vincent Sung Verstraeten

Callie Bennett has many roles, but we came to know her through her work as a musician based in Arizona and the Navajo Nation. We called Callie from Seoul to talk about her background, identity, life and culture in the Navajo Nation, and her work in music and ministry.

A 3-hour train ride to the southern coast: see how adoptees are living outside of Seoul

I reached out to my mother in July of 2019 at the age of 20 years old while I was on a research trip in the Mariana Islands.

Callie Bennett has many roles, but we came to know her through her work as a musician based in Arizona and the Navajo Nation. We called Callie from Seoul to talk about her background, identity, life and culture in the Navajo Nation, and her work in music and ministry.

"I have a secret...I'm adopted."

Through my 3 visits there, I have slowly learned to own my adoptee status and accept that I’ll always be a foreigner there. And that doesn’t mean that I’m any less Korean than the people living there, it just means we’re different.