Kathy Im

Kathy Im is the Director of Journalism and Media at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where she manages a $30 million annual portfolio that invests in the creation, dissemination, and amplification of accurate, just, and inclusive news and narratives across three areas of media -- Professional Nonprofit Reporting, Nonfiction Multimedia Storytelling, and Participatory Civic Media. She was instrumental in the creation and launch of Press Forward, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Media Forward Fund for the DACH countries. Kathy is also Chair of the Advisory Board for the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and previously, she was a board member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Media Impact Funders, and the Center for Asian American Media, and a former juror for the Peabody Awards.