Grace Yung Foster

Founder & CEO, The Inclusion Initiative

Grace was born in South Korea. At 3 years old, she was orphaned and abandoned at the local market. She immigrated to the US at 5 years old, eventually ended up in the foster care system, and then adopted.

Her experiences as an immigrant, a person of color in a very white community, and also her very difficult experience as a transracial adoptee and foster youth influenced her narrative of self-rejection of her Asian identity. She was in constant pursuit of finding “white belonging” for over 25 years. But now she has created that belonging for those who share these intersectional identities by leveraging her own lived experience and conveying why this matters. She founded The Inclusion Initiative to increase visibility through storytelling and community-building for professionals who share her lived experiences.

Grace has over 10 years of experience in leadership roles in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. She has extensive experience with leading teams, building strategies for growing organizations, and honoring mission-aligned work by incorporating lived experience.

She holds an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business, an Associate's degree in Business Administration, and a BA in Communications from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.