Rosa Kim, Treasurer

Rosa Kim is a board member of Fremont Union High School District. She was born in Seoul, Korea and worked as a TV writer until she moved to the US in 2000 with her husband and 18-month old daughter. She wrote articles and a column about education in the US for Korean women’s magazines while raising two children in California. As a first generation Korean-American, she worked at Silicon Valley Korean School (501C), the biggest Korean language school in the US, for 13 years, as a history instructor, bilingual program teacher, principal, and most recently, director of the SVKS Community Center. She is co-author of a series of Korean history textbooks: Find Korea, Explore Korea, and Korean History and Culture Curriculum for Overseas Korean Schools. She also coordinated an annual seminar on Korean history and culture for local K-12 teachers from 2009 to 2016. She is passionate about cultural education, which she considers essential to helping students embrace their cultural identities, and grow as confident, empathetic leaders in their local community. With this mission in mind, she co-founded the Young Korean American Academy, which continues to serve local students. She is currently volunteering as a board member of the Asian American Parent Association and treasurer for the Santa Clara County School Boards Association