Alumni Profiles
Yeri Kim
MPIA '06
Yeri Kim worked as program coordinator for World Vision’s Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) office from 2006 to 2009. During that time, she was posted in Pyongyang as administrative and HR manager for the Korea-America Food Assistance Program (KAFAP), a U.S. government-funded emergency food assistance program in the DPRK that distributed food to nearly 900,000 beneficiaries in 25 counties.
Yeri’s experience with the DPRK includes work with Korean-American Sharing Movement (KASM) and research for "Famine in North Korea and Hunger and Human Rights: The Politics of Famine in North Korea," co-authored by Professor Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland. She also worked as a conference coordinator for the 17th Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD) in Tokyo with top negotiators of the Six Party Talks. In 2007, she was tour manager for the New York Philharmonic’s historic performance in Pyongyang.
Yeri graduated cum laude from Yale University in 2003 with honors in both political science and history, and wrote her senior theses on the future of Sunshine Policy and the debate over Seoul's U.S. Embassy. She was a Les Aspin Fellow at the U.S. Embassy in the Republic of Korea in 2002, and, at IR/PS, was a 2005-2006 Dean’s Fellow and a Presidential Management Fellow.
