
yeo jeong [여정]
Korean for “journey”
Jung Han Messinger [they/them]
Founder & Owner
About Yeojeong LLC
As a diasporic Korean and transnational adoptee, I’ve been on a journey of some kind almost since the day I was born. I launched Yeojeong LLC in 2022 as a flexible container for my growing body of work accompanying people and groups as they journey through their next steps in life, leadership, and loss. With a range of offerings for individuals and organizations, Yeojeong LLC is dedicated to the individual and collective cultivation, flourishing, and growth of people of the global majority (PGM) and queer, trans, and nonbinary; disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent; and migrant and diasporic communities.
Yeojeong LLC’s Values
My experience in nonprofit organizations and grassroots community work has taught me that liberatory work is at its most visionary and focused when it has a clear, values-centered foundation. In all its projects and partnerships, Yeojeong LLC honors and implements the following values and frameworks as central to its practice:
Self-Determination that honors individual and organizational clients' autonomy, decision-making, expertise, and intuition without judgment, stigma, or shame
Integrity in alignment of stated beliefs, public work and presence, and internal practices and policies
Curiosity in learning from and about each other, our vast life experiences, and the world around us
Interdependence amongst each other to establish connection and interrupt competition and hyper-independence and with the natural world
Trauma Awareness that understands the compounding impacts of interpersonal, institutional, and cultural violence on our bodies, minds, and spirits, and endeavors not to amplify or cause further harm in its work
Intersectional Feminism that recognizes gender as interwoven with one's race, class, dis/ability, immigration status, sexuality, and other identities, and understands trans identity and sex work as central to its politics
Disability Justice as defined and expanded on by Sins Invalid, which asserts that "all bodies are unique and essential" and "we are powerful, not despite the complexities of our bodies, but because of them"
Abolition of policing, prisons, the military, and all other forms of state violence alongside the cultivation of systems that foster safety, security, health, wellness, creativity, and connection in our communities
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CAI Global, Inc. | Cards Against Humanity | Chicago Run | Chicago Volunteer Doulas | Christians for a Free Palestine | Circles & Ciphers | #LetUsBreathe Collective | Lift Louisiana | Movement Media Alliance | Moxie Consultancy Collective | National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum | National Lawyers Guild - Chicago | National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance | New Jersey Abortion Access Fund | North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence | North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault | Northwest Side Housing Center | Trillium Health | Ultraviolet | Young People For
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Asian Giving Circle of the Chicago Community Trust | Borealis Philanthropy | Chicago Foundation for Women | CULTIVATE Fellowship for Women of Color at Crossroads Fund | Project Voice Fund | Third Wave Fund Disability Frontlines Fund | Urgent Action Fund
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Chicago Center for HIV Elimination at the University of Chicago | Chicago Public Schools Office of Student Health and Wellness | Columbia College Multicultural Affairs Center | DePaul University APIDA Center | The Erikson Institute | Northwestern University Women's Center | University of Illinois at Chicago Women's Leadership and Resource Center | University of North Carolina LGBTQ Center