Increasing Civic and Political Participation

Team

Jee Kim

Program Officer New York

Jee Kim works on civic and political participation in the United States. His grant making focuses on increasing the participation of poor and marginalized groups by strengthening organizations and networks that build and mobilize the grassroots base for social change.

Prior to joining the Ford Foundation in 2012, Jee helped launch 18MillionRising.org, a national civic engagement project designed to build the political power of Asian Americans using social media and online organizing. This effort drew upon his experience in digital community building and media production at Pseudo.com, AsianAvenue.com, BlackPlanet.com and BET.com.

Previously, Jee served as a program officer, then program director, at the Surdna Foundation, where he managed grant-making portfolios in youth civic engagement, community organizing in New Orleans and nonprofit infrastructure over his eight-year tenure. He also worked in New York as a racial justice and immigrant rights organizer and as a journalist, editing the 9/11 anthology, "Another World Is Possible" and "Future 500," an analysis of youth activism in the United States.

Jee received his master's degree from Oxford University and his undergraduate degree from Columbia University.