Actor, Dancer, Tech-Policy Advocate
Los Angeles, CA
Hi! I’m Emi Kim, an actor, dancer, and technology public policy advocate based in Los Angeles, California.
At sixteen, I joined the LOG OFF Movement and helped develop the organization through outreach, research, and press interviews. At seventeen, I testified in front of California’s State Legislature, becoming one of the youngest to ever do so, supporting CA’s Age Appropriate Design Code. At eighteen, as the Lead Youth Consultant for the bill, I helped pass the CA AADC into law. Shortly after, I joined the Design It For Us Coalition as one of the founding Core-Team Members and began to push for federal legislation to protect youth online.
At nineteen, I auditioned for a professional acting project for the first time, and I landed the role of Eujin in the nine-time Grammy Award winner’s directorial feature film debut, Anderson .Paak’s “K-POPS” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024. At twenty, I began finding the balance between policy and creativity. Now, at twenty-one, more focused than ever, I am determined to become an unstoppable force in Hollywood and Washington, D.C.
I spent most of my childhood in the ballet studio or speech and debate class. As a competitive dancer, I placed at multiple competitions across California and began teaching dance at fourteen. As a competitive speaker, I was the reigning champion of over 40 regional and state tournaments from age nine through sixteen. I began competing at the national level at age eleven and began coaching at sixteen.
My understanding of expression is heavily linked to physicality and vocabulary. My two childhood extracurricular activities became defining characteristics of who I am. I spent nearly 15 years in the ballet studio and 10 years in speech and debate. These competitive expressions have given me grace, discipline, retention, execution, confidence, accuracy, perception, and quick-wittedness.
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