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 memoir about navigating the legal system as a Korean American woman.