Korean History and Culture Seminar for American Educators Handbook 2017 NKS Seminar-Handbook-Final with Daniel | Page 24

About speaker: Mary Connor taught United States history and Asian Studies for 35 years in the Los Angeles area. She was the co-founder of the Korea Academy for Educators and served as President and Program Director from 2004 to 2012. She now serves as Advisor for the National Korean Studies Seminar. Since 2004, she has organized approximately 100 days of workshops on Korea from coast to coast. Mary has also published two library reference books The Koreas: A Global Studies Handbook and The Koreas (Asia in Focus). She is the author of Common Core: Korea and author/editor of Teaching East Asia: Korea (2017). As a result of her efforts, she received the Republic of Korea’s Prime Minister’s Award in 2011. In the same year, she received the Daekyo Global Education Award that included a free trip to Korea for Mary and her husband. She has also been honored by the Korean Consulate General Los Angeles and has accepted awards from the Council of Korean Studies at Michigan State University, the Peace Corps Association, and the Organization of American Historians. 24