Sarah Kim is a freelance, award-winning disability journalist, tech content writer, and DEI media consultant who lives with cerebral palsy. Her journalistic work focuses on the intersectionality of race, socioeconomic status, culture/entertainment, and politics on people with disabilities, particularly women.

In 2022, she was awarded Asian American Journalists Association’s Susanne Ahn Civil & Social Justice Award. Sarah worked on an Al Jazeera Contrast multimedia project that received multiple global awards and recognition, including a News & Doc Emmys nomination and Shorty’s Award gold metal.

Sarah has also written for Mic, PBS Twin Cities, Al Jazeera English, Business Insider, TIME, HealthyWomen, Bitch Media, Betches, Dropps, BOLD Culture Hub, Supermajority News, Glamour, Columbia Journalism Review, Greatist, Barnard Magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings, Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, The Mighty, The Daily Beast, and others.

Sarah’s day job is at Pinterest as a long-form content writer. During after hours, she works as a freelance disability and DEI journalist, covering a wide range of issues related to people with disabilities and other marginalized identities. At the very core, Sarah spends all day crafting engaging stories through any and all mediums.

Previously, she worked as a content manager at a property technology company. She started her journalism career as a freelance reporter for Forbes, reporting on all things related to diversity and inclusion in the realm of disability. She also served as a media consultant for Jude Kampfner, a long-time BBC producer and multimedia journalist. Sarah has helped Jude launch a new creative coaching practice and assistant produced a show on BBC Radio 4.

Sarah also offers diversity and inclusion training and motivational speaking engagements. She has been a guest speaker for an East Harlem middle school since 2017, speaking to students about living with a disability and challenging people’s misconceptions about her. In October 2019, she was on a panel at The Wing (SoHo) and spoke about best practices for recruiting and hiring people with disabilities.

In May 2018, Sarah graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with a Master of Science. During the M.S. program, her focus has been print and investigative reporting. Her master’s project chronicles systematic failures endured by domestic violence survivors with disabilities. She holds a B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University. Sarah majored in Economics (Political Track) with a minor in sociology and completed the Athena Scholars Program (leadership & social justice studies). Some of her most predominant leadership roles on campus were: Senior Representative to the Board of Trustees, Co-Chair of the University Senate’s Student Affairs Subcommittee for Students with Disabilities, Chair of the SGA Elections Commission, and Student Representative to the Presidential Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion.

Her love for her alma mater extends throughout her alumna years, volunteering on various Alumnae Association of Barnard College committees whenever she can.