David Kyuman Kim
Philosopher · Scholar · Public Voice
Renewing Our
Moral Culture.
Through the Being Human platform, his scholarship, and his work with organizations and leaders, Dr. David Kyuman Kim asks the moral questions that matter most — renewing our capacity to think, speak, and act with greater humanity.
"The leading philosopher of religion and culture of his generation."— Cornel West
"An architect of change."— Maria Shriver
Dr. David Kyuman Kim is a philosopher, scholar, and public intellectual whose work sits at the intersection of religion, race, democracy, and the moral imagination. He holds a doctorate from Harvard and has held faculty and scholarly appointments at Connecticut College, Stanford University, Brown University, UC Berkeley, Union Theological Seminary, and the Graduate Theological Union. He has served as Senior Advisor and Editor-at-Large at the Social Science Research Council and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has spoken at Harvard University, the Global Philanthropy Forum, the Brazilian Philanthropy Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Sorbonne, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and universities and colleges internationally. He has been featured in Fortune Magazine and the New York Times. He is the author of Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics (Oxford University Press) and editor of The Postsecular in Question (NYU Press). His current book project is The Public Life of Love. Principal and Founder of Being Human.
