Kim Thai (she/her) is a writer, Emmy-award winning producer, community organizer, and an educator of the heart. She is dedicated to rewriting the limiting narratives that we tell about ourselves and each other through mindfulness practices and sharing her own story as a first-gen Queer Asian woman. Her personal mission is to empower people with liberatory practices so we may all live with ease and joy.

Her personal essays on identity and healing have been published in New York Magazine’s The Cut, Newsweek, Buzzfeed and many other publications. You can support her writing by subscribing to her Substack Everyday Magic. She has appeared on MTV News, Dear White Women podcast, and Authority Magazine; reported for FORTUNE, USA Today, and the Associated Press among others; and ran or advised creative teams at MTV, Logo, Discovery, TED, and global non-profits.

She is the founder of Joyful Liberation Collective, a grassroots community organization that creates liberatory spaces to transform oppression into personal joy, community care, and social awareness. She is a certified yoga and meditation teacher; a facilitator for the Trauma Resource Institute; has developed social-emotional learning programs that have empowered more than 100 high school teachers across America to make their classrooms more curious, compassionate and courageous.

She is currently committed to the Bodhisattva path in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition and was given the dharma name Ancestral River of the Heart to widen and deepen the insight from Buddhist teachings. Using meditation and contemplative practice as vehicles, she is currently sharing teachings on being your authentic self (Buddhanature), how to be of service to others (Bodhisattva Path) and tapping into the limitless capacity of the heart (Bramhaviharas).

Kim lives in the Western Catskills, the original land of the Munsee Lenape and Haudenosaunee people, with her beautiful wife, two mischievous cats, four friendly fish and one adorable frog. To feel nourished, she loves gardening, playing on her banjo and photographing nature. She is available for in-person engagements in NYC and virtually around the world.

Contact her here.