Thomas P. Kim, Executive Director:  Thomas Kim, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Scripps College. Dr. Kim has been interviewed dozens of times on U.S. and international radio and television, and he has been quoted in numerous journals and newspapers including The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Congressional Quarterly Weekly, and The Nation. He is the author of The Racial Logic of Politics: Asian Americans and Two-Party Competition (Temple University Press, 2006). Dr. Kim's insights have been published in U.S. and South Korean newspapers as well as the U.S. Congressional Record.

Christine Ahn: Christine Ahn is a policy analyst with expertise in globalization, philanthropy and Korea. She is the editor of Shafted: Free Trade and America's Working Poor (Food First Books, 2003) and contributor to The Revolution Will Not be Funded (South End Press 2007). Ms. Ahn has been interviewed on CNN/Headline News, NBC Today Show, Al-Jazeera, Voice of America, and National Public Radio. She has published in The International Herald Tribune, Asia Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and TomPaine. She is a co-founder of Korean Americans for Fair Trade and former director of the peace program at the Women of Color Resource Center. She has worked with the Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First, Legal Aid Society of DC, Bread for the City, and the American Civil Liberties Union. She is a fellow at the Oakland Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies' Foreign Policy In Focus. Ms. Ahn holds a master's degree in public policy from Georgetown University.

Christine Hong: Christine Hong is an assistant professor of Asian American literature, Korean diaspora studies, and critical Pacific Rim studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley where she co-founded API Education and Languages NOW! Her work examines the historic relation of post-1945 human rights literature to the Pax Americana, the U.S. military "peace" that restructured the Asia Pacific following World War II. She is also investigating how the cultural politics of debt have shaped accounts of South Korea's economic modernity and Korean immigration to the U.S.

Haeyoung Kim: As a policy analyst and researcher, Haeyoung Kim has worked with the Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice in Seoul, Republic of Korea, the International Forum on Globalization in San Francisco, and the Center for International Policy's Asia Program in Washington, DC. Her research has been focused on multilateral and bilateral trade agreements, international energy policy, globalization, and environmental justice. Ms. Kim received her Masters in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government where she was Co-Chair of the National Asian Pacific American Conference on Law & Public Policy and Senior Editor of the Asian American Policy Review. She currently works for the California State Assembly.

Suzy Kim: Suzy Kim is currently a visiting professor of history at Boston College. She received her Ph.D. in Korean history at the University of Chicago. Before joining academia, she worked at MINKAHYUP Human Rights Group as the international secretary in Seoul. She continues her human rights advocacy work as the Korea Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA. Her current research focus is North Korean social history, particularly mass mobilization in everyday village life from 1945 to 1950.

Donna Lee Kwon: Donna Lee Kwon is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Kentucky. A former Fulbright fellow and Korea Foundation grant recipient, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Kwon's research interests include Korean music, East Asian and Asian American popular and creative musics, music and embodiment, gender and the body, space and place, musical scenes, and cultural politics. She is an elected member of the Society for Ethnomusicology Council and serves as Member-at-Large for the Association for Korean Music Research. She has worked with community arts organizations and performs regularly. Recent venues include the Asian American Jazz, Other Minds, and San Francisco Ethnic Dance festivals.

Sanghyuk Shin: Sanghyuk Shin is an epidemiologist with extensive experience in diverse public health research settings. Shin earned a Master of Science in epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. His public health experience includes HIV/AIDS research at the New York City Department of Health, program evaluation and survey research in conflict-afflicted Somalia, and infectious disease surveillance at the California Emerging Infections Program. His current research interests include diagnostic medicine, tuberculosis, and migrant health. Shin was a founding member of the Korean Americans United for Peace in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Seung Hye Suh: Seung Hye Suh is a professor at Scripps College, specializing in American literature and culture, Korea, Asian American Studies, and globalization. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is a member of the steering committee of the Alliance for Scholars Concerned About Korea, and brings scholarly expertise together with 15 years experience working with community-based organizations in New York and Los Angeles.

Bernadette Chi: Bernadette Chi, Ph.D., is the past Director of the Institute for citizenship Education and Teacher Preparation at the East Bay Conservation Corps in Oakland, CA. Ms. Chi managed the Institute's current projects including the development of frameworks, curriculum and assessments that contributed to the research and practice of civic engagement, especially through service learning activities. She is the former Regional Coordinator for the CalServe Initiative with the California Department of Education. She was a 1999-2000 National Service Fellow with the Corporation for National Service and served on the Education Commission of the State's Every Student a Citizen initiative. Over the past six years, she has evaluated various service learning, civic education and other educational programs. Ms. Chi also served on the Working Group to advise the High School Civic Engagement Initiative managed by Providence College and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. She received her doctorate from the Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley in Policy, Organization, Measurement and Evaluation.

Bruce Cumings: Bruce Cumings is professor and chair of history at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, twentieth-century international history, U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy, and American foreign relations. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association, and the second volume of this study won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association. He is the editor of the modern volume of the Cambridge History of Korea (forthcoming), and is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Nation, Current History, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Le Monde Diplomatique. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, NEH, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, and the Abe Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council. He was also the principal historical consultant for the Thames Television/PBS documentary, Korea: The Unknown War. In 2003 he won the University’s award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and in 2007 he won the Kim Dae Jung Prize for Scholarly Contributions to Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace. He has just completed Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power, which will be published by Yale University Press. He is working on a synoptic single-volume study of the origins of the Korean War, and a book on the Northeast Asian political economy.

Henry Em: Henry Em, Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Korean History at Korea University. In January 2009, he will move to New York University as Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. He received his B.A. in East Asian Studies and Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. He has taught previously at UCLA and the University of Michigan. His book, Sovereignty and Modern Korean Historiography, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. He is also writing the chapter on modern Korean historiography for the Oxford History of Historical Writing, vol. 5: 1945 - Present. He was the guest editor of the Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, published by Kyujanggak at Seoul National University. Currently, for the project "Crossing Borders between Korean Studies and Japanese Studies," he is guest-editing four issues of Asea yŏn'gu published by Asea munje yŏn'guso at Korea University.

John Feffer: John Feffer is co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of several books and numerous articles. His books include North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis (Seven Stories, 2003), Shock Waves: Eastern Europe after the Revolutions (South End, 1992), and Beyond Detente: Soviet Foreign Policy and U.S. Options (Hill & Wang, 1990). He has edited several collections including Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Politics after September 11 (Seven Stories, 2003) and Europe's New Nationalism, with Richard Caplan (Oxford University Press, 1996). His articles have appeared in The International Herald Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The American Prospect, Newsday, The Nation, Asiaweek, Salon.com, TomPaine.com, YaleGlobal Online, AlterNet, The Progressive, Vegetarian Times, The Washingtonian, and Commonweal, among other publications. He's been widely interviewed in print and on radio and is a former associate editor of World Policy Journal.

Selig S. Harrison: Selig S. Harrison is director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the former director of the Century Foundation¹s Project on the United States and the Future of Korea. Specializing in South Asia and East Asia for fifty years as a journalist and scholar, he has visited North Korea ten times and on two occasions, met with the late Kim Il Sung. He is the author of six books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia, including Korean Endgame: A Strategy For Reunification and U.S. Disengagement, published by Princeton University Press in May 2002. Dr. Harrison served as South Asia Correspondent of the Associated Press from 1951 to 1954, based in New Delhi, returned as South Asia Bureau Chief of The Washington Post from 1962 to 1965, and served as Northeast Asia Bureau Chief of the Post, based in Tokyo, from 1968 to 1972. From 1974 to 1996, as a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he pursued investigative assignments every year in a variety of countries, especially those where he worked as a journalist, such as India, Pakistan, China, Japan, and the two Koreas. Dr. Harrison also visited Iran in June of 2007 and February and June of 2008.

Martin Hart-Landsberg: Martin Hart-Landsberg, Ph.D., is professor of Economics and director of the Political Economy program at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon; and Adjunct Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea. His areas of teaching and research include economic development, international economics, and the political economy of East Asia. He is the author/editor of six books, including Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy (Ashgate Publishers, 2007); Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Monthly Review Press, 1998); and The Rush to Development: Economic Change and Political Struggle in South Korea (Monthly Review Press, 1993). He is an editor of the journal Critical Asian Studies and a member of the steering committee of the Alliance for Scholars Concerned about Korea. He has also served as consultant for the Korea program of the American Friends Service Committee.

Pilju Kim Joo: Pilju Kim Joo, Ph.D., is the President of Agglobe Services International, a development aid organization providing humanitarian and agricultural assistance to North Korea. Born in North Korea before the country was divided, and raised in South Korea, Dr. Joo studied agriculture at Seoul National University and later received her doctorate from Cornell University. Dr. Joo has worked with major seed companies, including Northrup King and Pioneer Hi-bred International. She has been to North Korea over 60 times and has brought with her millions of dollars worth of farming knowledge, technology, and supplies to several cooperative farms. She secured one of the first contracts with the North Korean government to work with several dozen cooperative farms on developing their agriculture, including helping them to identify export markets to generate income.

Elaine H. Kim: Elaine H. Kim is a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also received her Ph.D. She is currently producing and directing a film titled Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded: Speaking Back to Hollywood About Asian Women and has co-produced other films centered on labor women and Korean American women's perspectives on the Los Angeles Riots. She is the editor/author of several books, including Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Issues in Asian American Visual Art (University of California Press, 2003), Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing (Temple University Press, 2003) and Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (Routledge, 1998). Her articles have appeared in Korea Journal, Asian Pacific American Law Journal, Civil Rights Journal, Amerasia Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Asian Week and Feminist Studies, among other publications. Kim is also the co-founder of the Asian Women United of California, the Oakland Korean Community Center and the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. From 1998-2000, she served on the President's Commission on Women in U.S. History, was the former president of the Association for Asian American Studies and was also a former Rockefeller and Fulbright Fellow.

Michael Kwun: Michael Kwun currently is "Of Counsel" at Keker & Van Nest, focusing on legal issues raised by cutting edge technologies. Previous, he was Senior Staff Attorney at at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a donor-funded non-profit defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights in the digital age. Prior to that, Michael was Managing Counsel, Litigation, at Google, where he and his team were responsible for defending Google in worldwide litigation. Michael sits on the board of directors of the East Bay Community Law Center, which provides legal services to the low-income community and hands-on clinical education for law students, and also sits on the board of advisors for the Green Bag Reader, an annual collection of exemplary legal writing. Michael received his law degree from the Boalt Hall School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.

Namhee Lee: Namhee Lee, Ph.D., is a professor of East Asian Languages and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Professor Lee's research interests include 20th Century Korean Social and Cultural History, Modernity and Nationalism, Comparative Social Movements in East Asia, and Korean American studies. Her publications include, "Anti-Communism, North Korea, and Human Rights in South Korea: 'Orientalist' Discourse and Construction of South Korean Identity," (forthcoming), "The South Korean Student Movement: 'Undongkwon' as a Counterpublic Space," and "The South Korean Student Movement, 1980-1987."

John Lie: John Lie (pronounced "Lee"), Ph.D., was born in South Korea, grew up in Japan and in Hawaii, and attended Harvard University where he received A.B. magna cum laude in Social Studies in 1982 and Ph.D. in Sociology in 1988. Currently he is Class of 1959 Professor and Dean of International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, Lie was Head of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for five years, and directed the Center for Japanese Studies and the Korean Studies Program at the University of Michigan. In addition to Illinois and Michigan, he has taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Yonsei University (South Korea), University of Oregon, Keio University (Japan), National Taiwan University, University of Waikato (New Zealand), and Harvard University. Lie's books include Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (co-authored, Harvard University Press, 1995), Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea (Stanford University Press, 1998), Multiethnic Japan (Harvard University Press, 2001), and Modern Peoplehood (Harvard University Press, 2004). He is currently working on a more systematic work, tentatively entitled The Consolation of Social Theory.

Ramsay Liem: Ramsay Liem is a professor of psychology at Boston College and also co-coordinates the Asian American Studies program. He directs the Memories of the Korean War Oral History Project and, with a collective of Korean American artists, a filmmaker, and a historian, produced the exhibition, Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the "Forgotten War". With Deann Borshay Liem, he is producing and directing a documentary film, Memory of Forgotten War (working title). He serves as the president of the Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation whose mission is to promote awareness of U.S./Korea relations in support of peaceful reunification. Liem is also a founding member of several Asian American and Korean American community organizations.

Nancy Neiman Auerbach: Nancy Neiman Auerbach, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Scripps College. She is author of States, Banks, and Markets: Mexico's Path to Financial Liberalization in Comparative Perspective (Westview Press, 2001). Her book offers a cross-regional exploration of the patterns of financial policymaking and private bank influence among several newly industrialized counties, including South Korea, Hong Kong, Turkey, and Mexico. She has also authored several articles on the topics of dollarization in Mexico, bank-dominated financial markets and external competitiveness in Germany and Mexico, the Mexican Peso Crisis and the ramifications of bank domination, perverse liberalization and financial crisis in South Korea. Auerbach lives in Claremont, CA with her husband, Jeffrey, and seven-year-old daughter Dalia.

Hazel Smith: Hazel Smith received her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in International Relations in 1993 and is currently Chair in Resilience and Security at Cranfield University, UK and Director of the Resilience Centre in the Department of Applied Science, Security and Resilience. Dr. Smith was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Stanford University (1994/1995), a visiting Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C. (2001- 2002) and worked at the UN University in Tokyo (2003-2004). She has worked on the DPRK for nearly two decades, where she has been a regular visitor since 1990. Dr. Smith worked for nearly two years in North Korea (between 1998 and 2001) for the UN World Food Programme, UNICEF and the United Nations Development Programme, and continues to work for IOs, governments, NGOs, business, and the international media as an advisor on North Korea. She has published extensively on North Korea including the UNICEF Situation Analysis of Children and Women in the DPRK, and her recent work includes a report on DPRK shipping for the Japanese foreign ministry and a DPRK context analysis for development programming for the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency. Her most recent books are European Union Foreign Policy: What it Is and What it Does (2002), Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Social Change in North Korea (2005), and Reconstituting Korean Security (2007). Dr. Smith has been interviewed by international media including the BBC, KBS, Voice of America, NPR, CNN, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and was invited to testify at the UK House of Commons on Korean security (2006). She is the proud owner of a North Korean driver's license.

David K. Yoo: David K. Yoo, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College, and a member of the Core Faculty, Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges. He offers courses on Asian American and immigration history, on religion in the United States, and the history of the U.S. West and California. He is the author of Growing Up Nisei as well as the editor of New Spiritual Homes: Religion and Asian Americans. His current research projects include an early history of Korean Americans in Hawaii and California and a co-edited volume on Korean American religion and spirituality. In 2007, Yoo was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Korea University in Seoul.

Mary Yu Danico: Dr. Danico is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. She recently spent a year as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Seoul, South Korea, where she taught in the Department of Sociology at Ewha Womans University and conducted ethnographic research on global Korean American identities and communities, and on Pin@y domestic workers in Korea and Hong Kong. In addition, she is working on a research project in Orange County examining the needs assessment of low-income Asian Pacific Islander youth and co-editing a book titled Transforming the Academy: Women, Queers, and People of Color Navigating Higher Education. She is a board member of the Association for Asian American Studies and sits on the editorial board of Contemporary Sociology. She is the author of The 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawaii, Asian American Issues, as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.

Byung Chul Kang: Byung Chul Kang, M.D., has been a community advocate for the peaceful reunification of Korea since the early 1990s. He is a founding member of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, where he directed Nodutdol's health advocacy and education program. He is also a founder of Pureun Korean School in Flushing, New York, a progressive Korean culture and language school for children and youth. Dr. Kang is a family physician practicing in New York City. He received his medical degree from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his Family Medicine residency program at New York Hospital-Columbia University.

Paul Liem: Paul Liem has been active on Korean peninsular issues for four decades and has visited North Korea in three different decades. In the 1970s he was a writer for The Korea Bulletin and editor of The Korea Commentary, both newsletters covering current events in North and South Korea. In the 1980s Mr. Liem assisted in sending delegations of progressive religious leaders, including members of the National Council of Churches, to North Korea. In the 1990s he served as advisor to the Berkeley Annual Reunification Symposia Series that hosted guest speakers from North and South Korea from 1991 to 1997. In 1992 Liem and other Korean American activists and artists organized a Korea American Arts Festival at the Oakland Museum among other venues, and in 2004 he served on the Korean American Centennial Committee that curated a multi-media oral history exhibit with the Oakland Museum celebrating 100 years of Korean immigration to the U.S.

Hye-Jung Park: Hye-Jung Park is a media and community activist who has been active in transnational social movements for over two decades. She is currently a Program Officer for Media Programs at The Funding Exchange, with stints as the Director of Youth Channel at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network and as the Director of Programs at the Downtown Community TV Center (DCTV). Ms. Park has served on the boards of several artist and community organizations, including the National Coalition of Independent Public Broadcasters, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, the North Star Fund, the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, Videazimut (an international coalition of community media), and the Alliance for Community Media. An award-winning producer in her own right, she has also produced several documentaries with J.T. Takagi that include The Women Outside (PBS), North Korea: Beyond DMZ (local PBS stations), and The #7 Train: An Immigrant Journey (WNET). Ms. Park has designed and taught courses on Asian and African American Media at several New York colleges.

J.T. Takagi: J.T. (Orinne) Takagi is an Asian American activist and independent filmmaker. Among her various awards, she was a Charles H. Revson Fellow at Columbia University (2000-01), a NVR/Rockefeller Media Fellow (2003-04), a Social Justice Fellow of the Open Society Institute (2004-05), and received the Steve Tatsukawa Memorial Award for Asian Pacific American Community Service in Media (1997). Ms. Takagi has directed several films on Korean peninsular issues including Homes Apart: Korea, The Women Outside, and North Korea: Beyond the DMZ (the latter two with Hye-Jung Park), all of which aired on PBS. Homes Apart was the first U.S.-based film to be given permission to film in both South and North Korea. Her films all focus on social justice issues, with the Call for Change series 2005 and upcoming 2009 series among them. Ms. Takagi is currently in post-production on (En)Countering Bias, a documentary on activist Asian American performers, and Kalayaan, a documentary following Filipina domestic workers in New York City. She also teaches as an adjunct professor at the City College of New York and in the Third World Newsreel Film and Video Production Workshop program. Ms. Takagi has worked with New York City activist groups including the Organization of Asian Women, the Korea Working Group, and Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Also a sound engineer, Ms. Takagi has also worked on many independent, theatrical and public television documentaries including the American Master and American Experience programs on PBS. She has been nominated for Sound Emmy's (1996, 1998) and for a Cinema Audio Society award (2006).

Ji-Yeon Yuh: Ji-Yeon Yuh is a co-founder of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, an organization devoted to educating policy makers and the public, and Board President of KANWIN, a Korean American women's organization focusing on domestic violence. A former journalist, she has worked for Newsday and served on the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is currently an associate professor of history and the founding director of the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University. She has done research on Korean military brides, Korean communities in China, Japan and the United States, refugees from North Korea, socialist Koreans in China and Japan in the immediate post-WWII period, and on the Korean reunification movement in the United States. Her writings on Korea issues and on U.S. issues have appeared in The Dong-A Ilbo (Seoul), The Hankyoreh Daily (Seoul), Sisa Journal (Seoul), The Yomiuri Shinbun (Tokyo), Newsday (New York), The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and other newspapers and magazines.