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.

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.

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.

Bright Limm is a recent graduate of CUNY School of Law. He splits his time between tutoring middle and high school students and doing civic and political work at several organizations - particularly at KAPA and at Common Sense Taxation, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization currently in development. Bright received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 2006.

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.

John Park is a recent transplant from Chicago. While working on a PhD in literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he taught a variety of classes themed around cultural studies, his goal was to bridge Chicago's Asian American academic, community service, art, and political groups. In this capacity, he became a founding member of both the Midwest Asian American Graduate Student Organization and the Greater Chicago Asian American Studies group, served on the Korean American Community Services Board and Asian American Resource and Cultural Center Advisory Board, was involved in the Chicago Asian American Artists Collective, and actively worked on local campaigns and ballot initiatives. In New York, John works in the nonprofit sector on community initiatives while doing some writing and editing on the side.