Kim is a cultural administrator, humanities advocate, and public historian. She believes DC history and culture can help us understand each other and how to create a better world.

Kim works to strengthen DC’s local cultural organizations, create unique public educational experiences, and increase city-wide access to cultural resources. Kim’s background as an attorney helps her reinvent organizations and assists in her research.

Over the last decade, Kim has transformed the Heurich House Museum into a vibrant and inclusive space that explores American civic identity and experience. Under her leadership as the founder and President of the nonprofit DC Archives Foundation, the organization is currently working to ensure a new DC State Archives building is constructed. Her public history work currently focuses on the unbuilt Chevy Chase neighborhood of Belmont and historic DC education leader Myrtilla Miner.