Meet Marissa, Laine, and Billy, the Pacific Northwest Nomads this fall! They’re getting ready to tour LiNK’s new event, sharing Joo Yang, Yeonmi Park, and Joseph Kim’s voices and ideas in an incredibly personal and engaging multimedia presentation. But, before they hit the road, get to know these incredible Nomads!
A true East Coaster, Marissa was born in Connecticut, raised in Maryland, went to school in North Carolina, and now calls Florida home. She first learned about this issue when she moved to South Korea to teach English. She feels that being a Nomad is important to change the narrative on North Korea and to tell the stories of the North Korean people. Her spirit animal is a squirrel because they are social, curious, and are always looking for food!
William AKA Billy was born in Tucson, Arizona but has spent the last three years in Taiwan, where he taught English classes and studied Mandarin. After reading “Escape from Camp 14” and watching Shin Dong-hyuk on Anderson Cooper, he realized he wanted to get involved in helping the North Korean people. One thing on Billy’s bucket list is to win a martial arts or boxing fight!
Laine graduated from California State University, Long Beach just a few months ago with a degree in German. She believes it is her calling to help people, so she wants to work as a Nomad to stand with the North Korean people as they bring to change to their country. She truly believes we will see a free North Korea in our lifetime. If she had a time machine, she would go back to Germany in 1989 to witness the fall of the Berlin wall and have the chance to see families reunited after decades apart!
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