Kathy Im was appointed to the CPB Board of Directors by President Joseph Biden and confirmed by the Senate in December 2022.
Ms. Im, of Chicago, is Director of Journalism and Media at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is a member of the advisory boards of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and is a Peabody Juror and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She was a visiting Fellow at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and is the co-author of “Unrestricted funding vital for journalism,” published by the American Press Institute. She previously worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Bank of America Foundation.
Her term expires in 2024.