Amanda Mei Kim is a Korean and Japanese American who grew up on a tenant farm in California. She writes about collective power and nature in rural communities. She has been recognized as a Narrative Initiative Changemaker Author, a deGroot Fellow, a Steinbeck Fellow, a Healing Arts Fellow and a California Arts Council Fellow. Amanda’s essays have appeared in the New York Times, PANK, LitHub, Brick, The Common, Tayo Magazine, Eastwind Magazine, and the anthology Nonwhite and Woman. Her poetry has been published in the anthology The Gate of Memory and Tayo Magazine. She is the founder of kanshahistory.org, a volunteer-powered history project that is documenting the contributions of 7,000 Nikkei farmers during World War II.