Julie Kim is an essayist and journalist who writes about motherhood, inclusion, and her experiences raising a disabled child in an ableist world.

Julie’s writing and reporting have been featured in national publications, including The Atlantic and The New York Times. Julie is a 2024 recipient of the DeGroot Foundation's Courage to Write grant, and a graduate of the Lighthouse Book Project, where she worked under Pulitzer-prize-nominated author Vauhini Vara.

Julie also contributes to Wirecutter, the product review site for The New York Times, where she offers product recommendations for parents and caretakers of disabled and medically-complex children.

Since 2012, Julie has served on the board of directors of City Arts & Lectures, a presenter of live, on-stage conversations re-broadcast on 130 public radio stations nationwide.

She has worked in the publications department at SFMOMA; as the public engagement director for an urban planning nonprofit in San Francisco; as a producer for a woman-owned design firm in Silicon Valley; selling ads for California Sunday and Pop-Up Magazine; and as an editorial director for tech companies, including Facebook and Slack.

Julie has degrees in literature from Brown University and architectural design from UC Berkeley. A longtime California resident, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, teenaged son, and daughter, Izzy, who was born in 2017 with a rare genetic condition linked to severe intellectual and physical disabilities.