A black and white headshot of Jaewon Byun, an East Asian man with short, neat, dark hair and round-framed glasses. He smiles warmly at the camera, arms crossed.

Jaewon Byun

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Presenting on Thursday, April 9, Finding my schools: An Autoethnography of Academic Exile for Critical Disability Studies

Jaewon Byun (He/him) is a disability rights activist from South Korea and a doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He previously worked at Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) in Seoul. His research interest is Disability Anthropology, with a focus on disability-as-methodology and disability justice.

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