Name Jane Trenka | Role Writer | |
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Books The language of blood, Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea | ||
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Jane Jeong Trenka is an activist and an award-winning writer.
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Trenka is the president of the organization TRACK (Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea).
Biography
Jane Jeong Trenka was born in Seoul, Korea. In 1972, Trenka and her sister were adopted into a white family in rural northern Minnesota. In 2004, she returned to live in Korea where she became an activist for standard and transparent adoption practices to protect the human rights of adult adoptees, children, and families. Her Korean mother found her daughters in 1972, shortly after the girls were sent to the U.S. and before they were legally adopted. Trenka and her family physically reunited in Korea in 1995.
Trenka has also spoken publicly about her own stalking experiences, to raise awareness for the issue. Trenka was stalked when she was in her late teens and studying at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She discusses the incident in her book The Language of Blood. Her experiences were adapted for an episode of the television series Obsession: Dark Desires.