Haein Shim

Bio

Haein Shim is a passionate women's rights activist, documentary producer, and freelance journalist who is deeply committed to women's rights issues. She served as an executive board member (communications) for the National Women's Political Caucus San Gabriel Valley from 2023 to 2024.

She has worked with numerous international media outlets, including TIME, The Economist, NPR, and Vice, in publishing more than 50 articles worldwide. Leading global news platforms, such as Al Jazeera English and CNN, have interviewed Shim regarding women's rights issues in South Korea. She is currently working as a documentary producer with an award-winning production team from Austria, focusing on global femicide in 12 different countries. She is also a researcher for an upcoming book being written by the BBC's first Gender and Identity Correspondent.

Her feminist artwork "I'm not a doll, I'm a person" was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2023, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2024, and now at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

She was awarded the Women's March Foundation's Woman of the Year Award in 2024 for her resilience and dedication to women's rights issues.

Shim graduated summa cum laude from Pasadena City College in 2023 and is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, where she was awarded a 2024-2025 fellowship by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts as a filmmaker. Her current documentary project, We The People (2025), focuses on the lives of first-generation, low-income students' lives at Stanford.

She is also working as an Undergraduate Researcher at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford.