Korean American Finds Her Biological Family And A New Perspective On Life
Sara Jones is perhaps the most American-sounding name one can imagine. She is as American as her name sounds. Raised in the United States by her adoptive white family, she admits that because of her Korean heritage she has been accused of being a banana–yellow on the outside but white on the inside.
Last year began, however, with an itch to find her biological family. Knowing little more than that she had been adopted from Korea, she began her search. The one other clue she had was a faint scar from having a tattoo removed from her arm when she came to the U.S. Recreating the tattoo with a marker, she shared photos of her arm with the markings on social media.
Much faster than she anticipated, she connected with her brother, who has the same tattoo on his arm. She learned that her father had given her up for adoption after her mother left. He had tattooed himself and the three children with the same, simple tattoo: cross with four dots underneath the cross, representing a father and three children.
The experience of connecting with her biological family has provided her with a whole new perspective on life, one the recognizes the reality of a completely different path her life might taken.
Be sure to watch the full interview with Sara in the video player above to learn more about how this experience has changed her.
Interview with Sara Jones, the President of InclusionPro.
The following is the pre-interview with Sara Jones. Be sure to watch the recorded interview above.
We’ll be discussing her experiences as a Korean adoptee, raised in Utah. I met my Korean birth family for the first time in October – after 42 years. with Sara Jones.
It really was miraculous how my Korean family and I found each other. I’m grateful to my birth father for giving me a unique tattoo that I could use later in life to find my family.
What is your take on adoption?
I’ve reflected a lot on what this journey has meant for me personally. It won’t be the same for all Korean adoptees.
Television Report: Miracle of the Yoon Tattoo: https://youtu.be/WVAvDlXAOB4
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Sara Jones. Photo Credit: Brock Best Photography
Sara Jones’s bio:
Twitter: @saradansiejones
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/saradansiejones/
Instagram: @saradansiejones
Sara Jones is President of InclusionPro, where she consults executive teams on diversity and inclusion – how to attract, grow and retain diverse and winning teams through her Inclusion Growth Framework strategies. As a consultant, she has keynoted or trained over 30 groups on leadership, high performing teams, talent strategies, and career skills. Sara has almost 20 years of experience within companies leading operational, partnership, fundraising and legal strategies. She was CEO of ApplicantPro, an HR SaaS company providing recruiting tools to over 3000 clients, with a strong female workforce. She was VP of Strategic Development at Patent Law Works, an IP firm based in Silicon Valley. She was head of business development at School Improvement Network, an ed tech SaaS company. She started her career as a patent attorney, where she led diversity efforts and became a partner at Workman Nydegger, having worked on over 400 patents, mostly in the software arts. Ms. Jones has a law degree from BYU and a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Utah.
In 2007, she co-founded and is COO of Women Tech Council, a non-profit with a community of 10,000 women and men nationwide. Over the past 11 years, Women Tech Council has recognized over 200 women tech leaders, mentored over 2,000 college women in STEM, and activated over 12,000 high school girls through its SheTech program.
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