Elaine H. Kim

Elaine H. Kim (February 26, 1972) teaches Asian American Studies and she fights for Asian American rights.  She co-founded the non-profit organization Asian Women United (AWU).
Kim first suffered disrespect because of her race in the second grade. She has made videos and has written in newspapers. She attended University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Kim went back to Seoul, South Korea to teach, but came back to University of California, Berkeley.
She teaches Asian American studies, and she fought for Asian American people around the San Francisco Bay Area and in Berkeley.