Month: July 2018

Joni Hendee is the Marketing and Public Relations Director for the Dumas Wesley Community Center. For over 11 years, she has been serving the community center in a variety of capacities, including: public speaking, special events and fundraising; communications planning; media relations; crisis management; online promotion and cause-related marketing; social media and Web 2.0, and website content management.
Her dedication to service and genuine desire to help others has propelled her career in the non-profit sector, where she has been recognized among her peers with an Award of Excellence from Public Relations Council of Alabama.
Joni and her husband Marcus have a 21 year-old son, Elijah, a 14 year-old son, Tyrek, and a 9 year-old son, Anthony. They reside in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Bulletin Summary:
Joni Hendee is the Marketing and Public Relations Director for the Dumas Wesley Community Center. She will tell the story of someone who survived against all odds and with the help of Dumas Wesley has gone on to make a real impact in our community.

ABOUT SUJIN KIM
Sujin Kim, Esq., was born and raised in Korea. Due to her understanding of both the Korea and U.S. business environments and cultures, she has been able to provide a vast array of legal and non-legal services to clients and communities (for both in- and out-bound related business and investment with South Korea), including connecting them with private and public sector resources. She is fluent in English and Korean.
Ms. Kim founded KOCAMA Consulting to assist American and Korean companies, institutions, and individuals to capitalize on opportunities for business and economic development in the US, particularly in the southern and southeastern regions, and the Republic of Korea. Services include assisting them to explore opportunities via business and economic activities, such as trade and investment delegations, import and export initiatives, or targeted business-to business and industry-to-industry partnerships. She also founded Gulf Coast Immigration (GCI) to meet the needs for comprehensive and sophisticated services in all aspects of immigration, including legal services, in the southern Gulf Coast region with subspecialties focusing on the Religious Worker and the Immigrant Investor visa programs.
Ms. Kim was appointed by President Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye as a member of The National Unification Advisory Council, a constitutional institution, to the President of South Korea and served two terms. She currently works with a Provincial government, Jeollanam-do, in South Korea as JoellaNam-do Special Advisor. In this capacity, she provides advice and counsel to Jeollanam-do and its businesses and industries regarding business and economic development with the U.S., particularly in the southern and southeastern regions, from marketing to connecting them with related private and public sectors. She previously served as Of Counsel to a U.S. regional law firm, working in the Economic Development and Incentives, International Trade, and Immigration practice groups.
As a board member and current Vice President of the Korea Southeast U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and as an advisory legal counsel to the Federation of Korean Associations of the Southeastern U.S., Ms. Kim works closely with various Korean governmental and quasi-governmental entities and Korean trade and industry associations, including Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), Korea International Trade Association (KITA), Korean Chamber of Commerce & Industry USA (KOCHAM), Korea Petrochemical Industry Association (KPIA), and the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business.
She has been active in Rotary International (in both South Korea and US). She participated in the Rotary International Group Study Exchange Program twice between South Korea and India in 2000 and South Alabama and South Korea in 2012. Through this program, she helped to reinvigorate the sister city relationship between the City of Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province and Mobile in 2012.
Ms. Kim also has been involved with L’Arche Communities in the US, and the Jesuit Volunteer Corp (JVC). She was the first Korean citizen who joined JVC to work with marginalized and underserved populations in the US. She taught Korean language, culture, and history at the University of South Alabama for 5 years. Currently, she serves as Vice Chair of the Human Rights Committee of Mobile L’Arche Inc.
She earned her BBA in International Business from The George Washington University in 1998 and was awarded her JD from the University of Maryland in 2008, with a Health Law Certificate from the Law and Health Care Program. Prior to attending law school, she pursued a career in international business and politics in Korea. Ms. Kim is admitted to practice in Alabama and is eligible for admission in the District of Columbia. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, Alabama Bar Association and Mobile Bar Association. Ms. Kim has been married for 15 years to a native Mobilian. She and her husband are members of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception parish and are active volunteers for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Matt Ericksen, P.E. – Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project Director
Matt Ericksen is the Project Director for Alabama Department of Transportation’s (ALDOT) Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project. A Professional Engineer with 25 years at ALDOT in the Mobile area, he has served as the District Engineer, County Transportation Engineer, Materials and Tests Engineer, Construction Engineer and Assistant Region Engineer.
Ericksen is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a bachelor of science in civil engineering. His is a Professional Engineer and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Ericksen and his wife have three daughters; they live in Daphne. He is a soccer coach and member of Christ the King Parish.

With over fifteen years of experience, Stacy Wellborn has worked with a variety of companies solving myriad communication challenges. From brand development to website design, email and social media marketing and public relations, Stacy works with clients to identify creative solutions to business challenges, to generate awareness, build community relationships and increase revenues.
Wellborn Strategies works with business leaders and entrepreneurs to identify, execute and realize their visions. Whether starting from a fresh idea or moving in a new direction, Wellborn Strategies develops strategic plans to facilitate effective execution and goal realization.