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Joe Kim
Associate Director, Communities of Practice

Joe Kim serves as an associate director for communities of practice at the HAVI. He joined the HAVI with more than 10 years of experience working in youth development and violence intervention, including in his previous role as community health director at RYSE Center, a community-based youth organization in Richmond, California. Throughout his time at RYSE, Joe played an integral role in the development of a hospital-based violence intervention program that serves youth in West Contra Costa County. Joe is passionate about partnering with communities to create innovative, healing-centered approaches to health models, interventions, programs, and spaces. He believes it is necessary to utilize approaches that both resist systemic oppression and violence while simultaneously creating safe spaces to build sustainable alternatives. He is dedicated to partnering with communities to actualize healing-centered practices and policies that are responsive to shifting socio-political climates. Joe received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.