Jee Kim
Revson Fellow 2008-2009
Program Officer
Surdna Foundation
Jee Kim is a Program Officer at the Surdna Foundation. He has been active in the racial justice and immigrant rights movement since the mid 1990s, serving as senior editor at Stress Magazine, working at 360hiphop.com and BET.com, and organizing with CAAAV. While working at the Active Element Foundation, he edited the 9/11 anthology, “Another World is Possible” and “The Future 500,” a youth organizing directory. He received his academic training from Columbia and Oxford Universities.
More than anything that Columbia had to offer, I feel that I’ve lived 9 new lives vicariously through the 9 other fellows. These are the 9 lives struggling and working for the City, while I was too, that I never knew about. My horizon has been broadened through which I would never have gotten in my classrooms.
[Robin is a Master’s degree candidate at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Mailman School of Public Health.]
