Iris (Yi Youn) Kim is a 2024 NBCU Academy Storyteller.
She is also a 2022 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, a 2022 USC Center for Public Diplomacy U.S.-South Korea Creative NextGen Fellow, and a 2023 Gold House Journalism Futures Accelerator Participant. Her work was anthologized in Woodhall Press' "Nonwhite and Woman" in September 2022.
She is currently working on a collection of essays about the reverberations of immigration and assimilation within Korean American communities.
Iris is a graduate of the University of Southern California.