Mina Kim codesigns shared learning opportunities, cross-sector relationship-building, and strategic planning initiatives with community members. Mina’s work is grounded in active listening, mixed methods research, curiosity, and care. She believes in holding and processing generative conflict as an essential component to cultivating systemwide capacity and ecosystems that seed and foster community capital. Currently, she works with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), Filmbuilding Malden, and the New England Foundation for the Arts to further the understanding and practice of cultural equity, multidisciplinary framings of arts and culture, and community-based processes.

Previously, Mina oversaw arts and culture grantmaking across three regions of Massachusetts as Program Officer of the Community Initiative at the Mass Cultural Council. There, she introduced a framework to actively support local contexts and needs and developed resources on multisectoral arts and culture investments, asset mapping, and community engagement. Mina also spearheaded neighborhood and small business partnerships as Assistant Director at The Fenway Alliance, while managing various cultural programming, such as TEDxFenway, Opening Our Doors, and other public events. Mina’s research interests include understanding how and to whom various types of capital flow in a place to illuminate opportunities to leverage and deepen the impact of capital on local and regional relationships.

Mina holds a Master’s in Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Smith College.