ZENITH PRESS
Shoreline A Bright Spot For Thriving Korean Americans
NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
By Jean Wong
Lee Mozena, founder and principal of Zenith Diversity, is putting together the Korean American Oral History Project, a multi-year project focused on collecting an oral history of Korean Americans, beginning with Shoreline’s numerous elected officials and business leaders.
Zenith Diversity is a company that fosters cross-cultural communication, as well as multicultural promotion and publicity, with a focus on how business and economic development improve when new groups are engaged...Though initially Mozena’s specialty was Muslim Americans, she has since
gotten interested in Korean Americans, working with several departments in Shoreline and Seattle
to improve “dominant culture engagement with ‘emerging majority’ groups.”
Mozena compares the Korean American and Arab American communities, “Like many groups with fairly clearly defined culture and language, the resulting silo affect has positives and negatives. There are many similarities [between the Korean American and Muslim/Arab American]
a hallmark of mainstreamcommunities — except the former is predominantly Christian —
American culture.” Read the full article.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REAL CHANGE NEWS
By: Ian Burns, Contributing Writer
February 3, 2011
In Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, a group of local business owners have set out to prove that religion doesn’t have to get in the way of business.
“Religion isn’t neutral, but business can be,” said Lee Mozena, founder of Zenith Diversity, a Seattle-based firm that focuses on cross-cultural business development.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Preserving modesty, in the pool
THE SEATTLE TIMES
By Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times Staff Reporter
July 19, 2005
It's Saturday evening, the end of a hot day, and a group of women and children have gathered at North Seattle's Meadowbrook Pool for their monthly swim. Most of the pool staff has left, except for two female lifeguards, who on this day will be on duty for the next two hours.
The women and children — all Muslims — have been swimming in private once a month at Meadowbrook as part of a program organized by the North Seattle Family Center. Because Islam requires Muslim women to fully cover themselves in public, swimming in pools or the ocean is largely off-limits for many. Read the full article.
P R O F I T F R O M U N D E R S T A N D I N G
To learn more call 206_368_9608 or write lee@zenithdiversity.com
