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Building the power of Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant communities in Chicagoland to advance human rights.

06/17/2026

Still basking in the warmth and generosity of our HANA community โœจ Thank you again to everyone who made this year's MODU Gala unforgettable.
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์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํ›„์›๊ณผ ์ฐธ์—ฌ์— ์•„์ง๋„ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋ฒ…์ฐน๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โœจ ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐˆ๋ผ๋ฅผ ์žŠ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Photos from HANA Center's post 06/16/2026
06/16/2026

Yesterday, in commemoration of the 14th anniversary of DACA, Congressmembers Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, Congressman Danny K. Davis, and Congressman Chuy Garcรญa, along with other local officials, held an oversight hearing on protecting and expanding pathways to citizenship for DACA recipients and undocumented immigrants.

This hearing comes during a time when DACA is increasingly under attack, including a recent decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals that would make it easier to deport DACA recipients.

HANA community member, healthcare worker, and DACA recipient Sam Lee shared his testimony calling on a permanent pathway to citizenship:

โ€œImmigrants work in hospitals, schools, childcare, restaurants, and many other places that are essential to our society and economy. But we are more than just our labor and the taxes we pay - we build community and support people where systems fail. Our immigrant communities are under attack, and we need a permanent solution. We need a pathway to citizenship for all 11 million undocumented immigrants, and we need it right now. I call on Congress to fight for our neighbors by passing the Registry Act and abolishing ICE. Every person deserves dignity and has the right to belong.โ€

Read the full testimonies via link in bio

Photos from HANA Center's post 06/11/2026

๐Ÿ™Œ Thank you to everyone who attended our 2026 MODU Gala last Friday!

With your incredible support, HANA raised more than $120,000, exceeding our fundraising goal for this year. Your engagement and generosity fuel HANA's work to advancing the rights of Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant communities in the Chicago area and beyond.

Congratulations again to our Committed to Justice, Youth in Action, and Mr. Sei Won Kim & Mrs. Ae Nyou Choi Scholarship awardees. Special thank you to our emcees Jenni Park and Sunyoung Pierce, IlGwaNoRi, Ajumma Rising, our volunteers, and all of our generous sponsors, in-kind donors, host committee members, and staff for making this annual event possible.

Join us at our upcoming Members Congress on July 19 as we continue to add to the collaborative HANA jogakbo we started at the gala!

Sign up at https://bit.ly/HANAMC2026

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์ง€๋‚œ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์— ์—ด๋ฆฐ 2026๋…„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐˆ๋ผ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ์„ฑ์›ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ๋†€๋ผ์šด ํ›„์› ๋•๋ถ„์— ํ•˜๋‚˜์„ผํ„ฐ๋Š” $120,000 ์ด์ƒ์„ ๋ชจ๊ธˆํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์˜ฌํ•ด์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ์™€ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด๋ฏผ์ž ์ •์˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•˜๋‚˜์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ํ™œ๋™์— ํฐ ํž˜์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ •์˜ ์†Œ๋ช…์ƒ, ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฒญ๋…„, ์žฅํ•™๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜์ƒ์ž ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ถ•ํ•˜๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌํšŒ์ž ์ œ๋‹ˆ ๋ฐ• ๋‹˜, ์„ ์˜ ํ”ผ์–ผ์Šค ๋‹˜, ์ผ๊ณผ๋†€์ด ํ’๋ฌผ ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ์•„์คŒ๋งˆ ๋ผ์ด์ง•, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๋ถ„๋“ค๊ณผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ค€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์Šคํฐ์„œ, ๊ฒฝํ’ˆ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ž, ์ฃผ์ตœ ์œ„์›ํšŒ ์œ„์›๊ณผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์„ผํ„ฐ ์ง์› ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ์นด๊ณ  ์ง€์—ญ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ทธ ๋„ˆ๋จธ์˜ ํ•œ์ธ, ์•„์‹œ์•„๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ, ๋‹ค์ธ์ข… ์ด๋ฏผ์ž ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์˜ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฆ์ง„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋‹ค์ง€๊ณ , ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃฌ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

7์›” 19์ผ์— ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆผ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์…”์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐˆ๋ผ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋ณด๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์™„์„ฑํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”! ํ”„๋กœํ•„ ๋งํฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ฐธ์„๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜๊ธฐ: https://bit.ly/HANAMC2026

Photos from HANA Center's post 06/07/2026

[Reposting in Korean ] ๐Ÿšจ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์˜์ฃผ๊ถŒ์„ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋ฏผ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ด๋ฏผ๊ตญ(USCIS) ์ง€์นจ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์˜์ฃผ๊ถŒ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ณผ์ •์ด ๋” ๋ณต์žกํ•ด์ง€๊ณ , ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์ง€๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๋„ ์ปค์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์•„์‹œ์•„๊ณ„ ์ด๋ฏผ์ž ๊ณต๋™์ฒด์™€๋„ ๊นŠ์ด ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์•„์‹œ์•„๊ณ„ ์ด๋ฏผ์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ดˆ์ฒญ, ์ทจ์—…๋น„์ž, ์œ ํ•™์ƒ ๋น„์ž, ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์ด๋ฏผ ๋“ฑ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์‚ถ์˜ ํ„ฐ์ „์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ์žฌํšŒํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

DACA์™€ TPS๋ฅผ ์ถ•์†Œํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜์ฃผ๊ถŒ ์‹ ์ฒญ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ •์ฑ…๊นŒ์ง€, ์ด๋ฏผ์ž๋“ค์ด ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์‚ถ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ์€ ์ ์  ๋” ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โžก๏ธ ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ฒจ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๋™์ฒด์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

Photos from HANA Center's post 06/06/2026

[ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด โฌ‡๏ธ] People's Academy is back on June 20 with 'Building Bridges Between Communities and Culture'!

In this bilingual Korean and English community gathering, we'll explore the connections between Black resistance art and Korean Minjung (Peopleโ€™s) art.

Through art, conversation, and a collaborative mural activity, weโ€™ll reflect on shared histories of survival, resistance, and community care while imagining what solidarity can look like in everyday life.

Swipe to read more about this session's Guest Speaker & RSVP at bit.ly/2026HANA-PA

All are welcome!

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ํ‘์ธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์˜ ์ €ํ•ญ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฏผ์ค‘๋ฏธ์ˆ ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์„œ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ํ•œยท์˜ ์ด์ค‘์–ธ์–ด ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ๋ชจ์ž„, โ€œ๊ณต๋™์ฒด ๊ฐ„ ์—ฐ๋Œ€์™€ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ž‡๋Š” ์ž๋ฆฌโ€์— ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์„ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ™”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฒฝํ™” ํ™œ๋™์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„œ๋กœ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์†์— ๋‹ด๊ธด ์•„ํ””๊ณผ ์ €ํ•ญ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณต๋™์ฒด์˜ ํž˜์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋Œ์•„๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ผ์ƒ ์† ์—ฐ๋Œ€์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ณด๋ ค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ฒจ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์„ธ์…˜์˜ ์ดˆ์ฒญ ์—ฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ฝ์–ด๋ณด์‹œ๊ณ , bit.ly/2026HANA-PA๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด RSVPํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

06/04/2026

๐ŸŒบ What blooms when ICE melts?

Korean drumming has long been used as a symbol of resistance and liberation, representing courage, solidarity, and a renewed sense of community togetherness.

Join us for "Itโ€™s on Us: A Day of Art and Action" to experience the power of drumming as a form of protest and solidarity with HANAโ€™s drumming group, IlGwaNoRi (IGNR).

IGNR will start the day with a pungmul (traditional Korean drumming) performance at Horner Park before hosting a drumming workshop for the public. Weโ€™ll finish the event with a picnic with light food and refreshments.

Sign up at bit.ly/HANAJune13

Photos from HANA Center's post 06/01/2026

Our MODU Gala would not be possible without the generosity of sponsors who support HANA's mission to uplift Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant communities in the Chicago area.

Swipe to see our amazing sponsors, Host Committee members, and in-kind donors who help sustain this annual community event.

There's still time to buy tickets to the gala! Every ticket or donation helps HANA continue its vital services to immigrant families in Chicago and the northwest suburbs.

Buy tickets or donate today: hanacenter.org/gala-2026

Thank you!

Chicago community leaders on building intersectional solidarity across the city 05/28/2026

HANA Center's Executive Director Danae Kovac and Chicago community leaders on building intersectional solidarity across the city on WBEZ In the Loop.

Chicago community leaders on building intersectional solidarity across the city โ€œThere is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives,โ€ the Rev. Jaime Fluker quotes activist and writer Audre Lorde.

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