Jungwon Kim

Senior Scout and Author Strategist

Jungwon Kim is a writer, cultural worker, and 2024-25 Soros Fellow working at the confluence of intergenerational trauma, grief, and healing. As a communications leader and advocate, she has spent two decades chronicling frontline environmental and human rights movements. She served for nine years as head of the Creative & Editorial team at the Rainforest Alliance and for eight years as the editor of Amnesty International, a quarterly human rights print magazine (circ. 300,000). She has also worked as a journalist for newspapers, magazines, and nationally syndicated public radio programs. Jungwon is the board chair of Peace Is Loud and a board member of the Fund for Public Health NYC. She did her undergraduate and graduate studies (B.A. Philosophy, dual M.J./M.A. in Journalism and East Asian Studies) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded the Fulbright, Foreign Language Area Studies, and Korea Foundation fellowships. She is a writer, mother, co-founder of two BIPOC-centered sanghas, musician, and late-blooming surfer.