Co-Founder and President
Third State Books
Charles Kim is Co-Founder and President of Third State Books, the first publishing house in North America to focus exclusively on publishing AAPI writers. He has spent nearly three decades moving forward the principles of authentic representation, equity, and narrative change in publishing. He previously served as Senior Editorial Agent at Serendipity Literary, the largest agency in the U.S. specializing in writers of color. He also served as Associate Publisher at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he oversaw the publication of forty titles per year and established an award-winning, best-selling line of children’s books. Before MoMA, he was Editor in Chief at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where he launched the Museum’s first publishing imprint and magazine; and Senior Agent at the French Publishers’ Agency, an office of France’s Ministry of Culture. Born in Seoul, Charles immigrated to America with his family at the age of seven.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT