In Jin Moon (or Tatiana Moon; born 1965) is the former multi-millionaire president of the

Unification Church of the United States The Unification Church of the United States is the branch of the Unification Church in the United States. It began in the late 1950s and early 1960s when missionaries from South Korea were sent to America by the international Unification Church' ...

and a daughter of

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founder Reverend

Sun Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon (; born Moon Yong-myeong; 6 January 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support for conservative political causes. A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the ...

and his wife

Hak Ja Han Hak Ja Han Moon (; born February 10, 1943 January 6, 1943, lunar calendar) is a Korean religious leader. Her late husband Sun Myung Moon was the founder of the Unification Church (UC). Han and Moon were married in April 1960 and have 10 living ...

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Moon was born in

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in 1965 and moved with her family to the United States in 1973. She studied political science and philosophy at

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and pursued her graduate studies at

Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the religious studies, academic study of religion or for leadership role ...

. In the 1980s, Moon spoke at public rallies in support of her father who was United States vs. Sun Myung Moon by the United States government. In 2008 Moon assumed the position of CEO at New York City's

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, and implemented a restructuring. She was appointed president of the

in August 2008 and worked to modernize the church's worship style in an effort to bring in younger members.Unification Church Woos A Second Generation

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, June 23, 2010 In 2011, she spoke at an inter-religious conference on

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. In 2012, she resigned from her office at her mother's request and after numerous members complained following the birth of her child from an extramarital partner.The Fall of the House of Moon

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, November 15, 2013

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