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

Her core mission is to reinterpret established DC histories using a justice lens. She works to strengthen DC’s local history organizations, create unique public educational experiences, and increase city-wide access to history resources. Kim’s background as an attorney has not only helped her reinvent organizations, but assists in her DC history 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. Her public history work currently focuses on the unbuilt Chevy Chase neighborhood of Belmont and historic DC education leader Myrtilla Miner. 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.