Overcoming Obstacles - From Housemaid To Harvard

Join Expert Motivational Speaker Gertrude Chapman as she welcomes her Special Guest Jin Kyu (Shu) Robertson to “Your Turning Point.” Jin Kyu (Suh) Robertson was born and raised in Korea. She worked as a factory girl, waitress, and a housemaid. At age 22, she immigrated to America to become a housemaid (a position she found through a Korean newspaper ad) with practically no English and had only one-way ticket and $100 to her name. At the age of 28, Jin, a battered wife and a mother of eight months old baby-girl, joined the U.S. Army as a private to escape from the domestic violence. Through determination, imagination, and sheer will, later she retired as a U.S. Army major, received MA (at the age of 43) and Ph.D. (at the age of 57) both from Harvard.