Tag Archives: identity

Making a name for yourself starts with your name

My grandpa gave me my Korean name, Paik Injun, but that’s not my name. I’m Shawn. No disrespect, Gramps. When he was a teenager, my grandfather left his home in Korea to work in Manchuria. There, he changed his name ...

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4 career tips for young women from Lucky magazine chief Eva Chen

Eva Chen arrived fashionably late to a convention panel about women leaders in the newsroom on Thursday afternoon. (Her Twitter followers will know she went to another similarly named hotel.) But all heads perked up as she took her place ...

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I’m from Wisconsin. Really.

People ask me how to pronounce my name all the time. It’s almost a daily occurrence and entirely understandable. My name is not phonetic nor is it common in the suburban Midwestern town where I grew up (it’s pronounced twee-lawn, ...

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