Jennifer Kim
(KAPA Co-Chair)
is the Program Director of the Refugee Assistance
Program of the City Bar Justice Center.
Before coming to the City Bar, Ms. Kim was a
litigation associate at Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett LLP. She received her J.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania Law School in
1999 and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton
University in 1995. She is currently a
member of the City Bar Association's Committee
on Immigration and Nationality Law.
Jim Baek (KAPA Co-Chair)
works in the Community Development Finance Group
of Deutsche Bank where he helps manage the company's
community development lending and investing
in the U.S. Prior to his current position,
Jim spent several months, as a member of the
MBA Corps, in the south Caucus country of Azerbaijan,
where he worked with the central bank to develop
a national mortgage fund. His other professional
experiences include work in fundraising, policy
and municipal bond finance. Jim and his
wife currently live in Brooklyn. He received
a BA in Political Science from Grinnell College
and a MBA from the University of Michigan.
Cha Lee is
a Project Manager at the New York City Department
of Housing Preservation and Development, where
she develops affordable housing for homeless
and low-income tenants. She received a Masters
in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard, and her bachelors from
New York University
Hahna Kim is currently
pursuing a dual MBA / Master in International
Affairs degree at Columbia University. Prior
to graduate school, she worked for American
Express and Borders Group, Inc. Hahna received
a BBA from the Ross School of Business at University
of Michigan.
Steven Choi is the Director of the Korean
Community Law Project, a joint project between
the Asian American Legal Defense & Education
Fund and YKASEC – Empowering the Korean
American Community. He has worked in the
past with a variety of Asian American and Korean
American groups, such as the Korean Youth and
Community Center of L.A., the National Korean
American Service & Education Consortium,
and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center.
Steve holds a J.D. degree from Harvard
Law School, an M.A. in Korean Studies from the
University of Hawai’i, and an A.B. from
Stanford University.
Soo Young Kim currently works
for Renaissance Economic Development Corporation,
an Affiliate of Asian Americans For Equality
and provider of financing and technical assistance
services with a focus on low-income neighborhoods,
minority and immigrant businesses and entrepreneurs.
Prior to this, he worked with Korean American
Small Business Service Center of New York, Inc.,
helping businesses with the various city and
state issues associated with operating in New
York City. He has a B.A. in Economics from Columbia
University.
Mona Lee is the Research and
Grant Writing Assistant at Borough of Manhattan
Community College's Manhattan Educational Opportunity
Center. She has worked in the past with immigrant
service organizations such as the YWCA of Queens,
IDESPCA (Institute of Popular Education of Southern
California) and the International Rescue Committee.
Mona received a Masters of Urban Planning from
the UCLA School of Public Affairs and a bachelors
from the University of California, San Diego.
Grace Meng is currently consulting
in the development of a new nonprofit, the Common
Data Project, an organization that seeks to
create new ways to access and share sensitive
information without compromising individual
privacy. She previously spent five years as
an immigrant rights' lawyer, including a one-year
fellowship at the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco,
California. She has a J.D. from Yale Law School
and a B.A. in English Literature from Yale University.
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