Meet our team

Katherine Yungmee Kim is a writer, journalist, and educator based in Los Angeles. She is the author of “Longitude” (Datz Press, 2021) and “Los Angeles’s Koreatown” (Arcadia Publishing, 2010), and serves as program director of the Koreatown Storytelling Program and creator of the K-Town is Your Town community photo project at the Koreatown Youth and Community Center, the nation’s oldest and largest Korean American nonprofit.

She has worked extensively in immigrant communities, editing Izote Vos, a collection of Salvadoran American writing and visual art, and Quietly Torn, a literary journal by Young Iu Mien American women, both with Pacific News Service. Her community journalism projects have been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, California Humanities, California Community Foundation, Eisner Foundation, and the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, among others. For her intergenerational work, she was a 2021 encore.org Gen2Gen Innovation Fellow and a member of the Generations United Advisory Group on Diverse Intergenerational Programs.

Dilan Askew is the Koreatown Storytelling Program Coordinator. She was born in Los Angeles and raised in Tacoma, Washington.

She returned to L.A. to attend school at Occidental College, where she was the Director of FEAST, a student-run organic garden, and graduated with a major in comparative studies in literature and culture and an urban and environmental policy minor. She has always found herself drawn to the art of storytelling and the important role it plays for individuals and culture. She hopes to create spaces where listening to and telling stories is accessible for all.

Tony Morales is a multimedia artist and educator from Los Angeles. Before returning to Los Angeles, he was a college advisor to high school students in Richmond, California. Currently, Tony is the host and producer of There Radio, interviewing artists who define the current cultural moment.

Previously, he launched the podcast platform for UC Berkeley’s Multicultural Community Center. His passion for audio storytelling stems from his family’s sonidero culture and oral history. He uses various mediums to tackle themes in homebuilding, labor issues, and music culture. Tony’s work has been featured in UC Berkeley’s Labor Center, Dryland Literary Journal, and Home Grown Radio. His writing has received recognition from the Los Angeles Clippers for their Write the Story campaign.

Janice Yun is the communications associate at KSP. She graduated from UCLA in 2023 with a B.A. in communication and dual minors in Asian American studies and film/TV/digital media. During her undergrad, she was an arts and entertainment reporter for the Daily Bruin and served as the theater, film, and television editor during her junior year.

She is passionate about utilizing the arts and media to amplify marginalized voices, specifically those from the AAPI community. In her free time, she loves checking out new coffee shops or burger joints, thrifting, and trying out (and usually butchering) new recipes.

Syed Easin is a UI/UX designer and web developer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He designed and developed the K-Town Archive website, crafting the visual identity and interface in Figma and bringing it to life with Next.js, including the archive's content dashboard. Working with clients across the US, UK, and Europe, he specializes in building websites for organizations that put people and stories first, and he believes good design should stay quiet so the content can speak.

Collaborating across continents on the K-Town Archive, he found a familiar thread in Koreatown's story, one of community, memory, and belonging, that reminded him of his own neighborhood back home. When he is away from the screen, he enjoys films from around the world and spending time with his wife and young child.

Rachel Kim is a Los Angeles-based graphic designer and sign painter who translates oral histories into physical media. Her work ranges from murals and environmental design to digital archives and book design. Previously, she collaborated with the Kounkuey Design Initiative on award-winning urban planning and landscape design projects.

Her extensive partnership with KYCC and KSP includes initiatives like the K-Town Atlas, Legacies of Western Ave, Traditional Healing Arts, and the K-Town Archive. Rachel holds a BA in Design Media Arts from UCLA, plays in two bands, and has three perfect cats.