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Jamerry Kim is the Director of Cooper Union's Saturday Program and teaches English at The New School. Jamerry Kim was born in Germany, grew up in South Korea and emigrated to America. She is a multi disciplinary artist and an educator whose interest is the themes of diaspora, language justice, and history. She has worked on various projects which include designing a book that functions as an object which is part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Library and The Met. Her documentary film about a Queens Korean adoptee and transgender activist Pauline Park was screened at film festivals including Frameline San Francisco Film Festival at the historic Castro Theatre, Athena Film Festival at Barnard College, and the Korean American Film Festival. Kim’s ongoing project about the historical document, The Flushing Remonstrance connects Flushing’s rich history to its present day community. It was most recently part of a group exhibition at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. She is an alumna of the Cooper Union H.S. Art Program and Yale University.