2026 Bridge Conference

Richard D. Kim is a Racial Equity Consultant with Cultures Connecting. He is passionate about cultivating a person-centered approach and brings over a decade of experience teaching, consulting, leadership coaching and facilitation engaging race, culture and identity in various organizational and education settings. Richard’s focus is not only in helping folks to bridge the knowledge gap but to also cultivate empathy and understanding especially across differences. Despite his often-perfect hair, Richard continues to learn and grow and invites others to be unpolished and unfinished alongside him.

As a person born in the United States to parents who emigrated from South Korea, Richard brings an uncommon voice and an interdisciplinary perspective to the work of racial equity. He is a husband to Grace and together learning to raise two sons. Richard grew up in Minnesota and Florida and has lived in the Seattle area since 2007.