Samantha Kim Morris is currently married, with a two year old son named, Josiah, and is expecting her second child. Samantha was born in South Korea and immigrated to the United States when she was 3 1/2 years old. She grew up in Chicago and Palatine, IL. She attended Judson University in Elgin, where she met her husband, Curtis Morris. She graduated with a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Science.   Samantha was very involved in Judson's multicultural club, United Cultures of Judson, UCJ. She still keeps in touch with many of her international friends and hangs out with them now at their children's birthday parties. She coordinated a trip to Chicago's Koreatown with her sociology class her senior year.  She was the president of the Circle K Club, the college version of Kiwanis and volunteered in many projects like Make a Difference Day and building a school playground in Elgin, to name a few.

Samantha started her non-for-profit career as an AmeriCorp member for the American Red Cross of Chicago and worked her way up to being the Director of Youth Services for the Red Cross of Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. She worked with the American Red Cross for 5 years and switched gears. She has been working with Junior Achievement for the past 5 1/2 years, starting as an Education Manager at JA of Silicon Valley and transferred back to Chicago to work as the Senior Operations Manager for JA of Chicago. Samantha enjoys sharing her Korean culture to others, as well as getting to know many other cultures. She had several friends, growing up, who were Korean adoptees and has a special place in her heart to help adoptees and their families. Samantha is very active in her church, Prayer Garden Ministries in Evanston, as the Children's Ministry Teacher. Some of her hobbies are dancing, listening to music, playing the piano and hanging out with family and friends.

Cultural Resources:

About Asian Culture
	Asian People & Countries
	Chicago’s Ethnic Demographics
Chicago Resources
Chicago offers so many resources regarding the Asian Community
	University of Chicago: Asian Internet Resources
	Asian-American Services Committee ASIAN LANGUAGE MATERIALS & RESOURCES
	Asian-American Services Committee ASIAN AMERICAN INTERNET RESOURCES
	CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY Asian-American Services Committee
Restaurants
What I like about using metromix.com are the comments. Especially when you have never been to a certain restaurant and they can tell you if it’s a kid/family-friendly place and if there’s a kid’s menu. Which is a plus for a family dining out together for the first time at the restaurant. Though, there’s nothing like actually going there yourself and sharing comments. I hope to give some personal comments about Asian restaurants that I get to dine at in the future.
	Chinese Restaurants, House of Emperor
	Korean Restaurants
	Vietnamese Restaurants
	Taiwanese Restaurants
Asian Media
	KBC- Channel 41 For those who live in Chicago and nearby suburbs, you can watch Korean TV with sub-titles on Channel 41. On Saturday mornings there are children’s program.
	Korean Newspaper-Korea Times (translated via Google)
Asian Birthday Celebration
	Korean Child’s First Birthday or 100 Day Celebration
	Cultural Spotlight
Summer Camps
	SumAsian Heritage Camp, Virgina Email: grace_song74@hotmail.com Phone: 301-587-7068
	Camp Choson, Hudson, WI (Korea)
	Camp Chingu, Pittsford, NY (Korea)
	Camp Friendship, Palmyra, VA (Korea)
	Camp Friendship, Stirling, NJ (Korea & China) Contacts Lynn Bocchini and Cathy Feeney
	Camp Hwarang Teen Camp, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN Phone: 612-644-3251
	Camp Kajok - Indianapolis, IN (Korea) Email: rbuhrt@aftinc.net Phone: 317-573-0849
	Camp Moo Gung Hwa - North Carolina (Korea) Email: epoore1@juno.com
	Camp Moon Hwa, Minnesota (Korea) Phone: 507-281-5838
	Camp Mu Ji Gae, Albany, NY (Korea) Email: suttonc@parsonscenter.org Phone: 518-426-2600, 518-355-8705
	Camp Namu, Arendtsville, PA (Korea) Email: campnamu@lutherancamping.org
	Camp Sejong, Branchville, NJ (Korea) Email: lpriore2@optonline.net Phone: 201-391-5598
	Catalyst Foundation Vietnam Culture Camp, Northfield, MN (Vietnam)
	Chinese Children Adoption International, Centennial, CO (China)
	Colorado Heritage Camps, Fraser, CO (Multi-Cultural) Email: hcamps@juno.com
	Concordia Language Village, Minnesota (Multi-Cultural) Email: clv@cord.edu Phone: 800-222-4750, 218-299-4544
	Dillon International Heritage Camp, Tulsa, OK (Multi-Cultural)
	Families For International Children Heritage Camp, Grand Rapids, MI (Multi-Cultural) Email: SoltysiakP@aol.com
	Families With Children From China, South Jersey, NJ (China)
	Hand Around the World, Roselle, IL (Multi-Cultural)
	Holt Heritage Camp, Oregon, New Jersey, Nebraska (Multi-Cultural)
	Iowans for International Adoption, Cedar Falls, IA (Korea)
	KAMP, Iowa (Korea) Email: kamp@iiakampretreat.com
	KampKimchee, Brainerd/Baxter, MN (Korea)
	Kamp Chin-gu, Minnesota Email: mailto:mpeterson@abraauto.com or scpark@attbi.com Phone: 612-747-1557
	Korean American Pride, Utah (Korea) Email: zippedoda@msn.com Phone: 801-280-6559 Contact is Gary Beutler
	Korean Culture Camp of Eastern Michigan (Korea) Email: info@koreanculturecamp.org
	Korean Heritage Camp, Oklahoma (Korea) Email: bev@dillonadopt.com
	Our Korean Kids International Adoptee's Camp, Kentucky (Korea) Phone: 502-244-8067
	Sae Jong Camp, Michigan (Korea) Email: info@saejongcmap.com Phone: (248) 705-9804 - Jeanah Hong
	Smith College Culture Camp (Korea) Email: mkim3@smith.edu Phone: 413-585-6293 - Crystal Kim,
	Wide Horizons for Children Culture Camp (Korea)
	Xilin Asian Community Center, Naperville, IL. Camps are held in cities in China. (China)