Kim Thai (she/her) is a writer, mindfulness teacher, community organizer, and Emmy-award-winning storyteller. A certified yoga and meditation teacher, she is currently a student in Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Plum Village Buddhist tradition and was given the dharma name Tâm Giáng Tỗ (Ancestral River of the Heart) to widen and deepen the insight from Buddhist teachings.
She founded Joyful Liberation Collective, a grassroots community organization that provides space and ways to find liberation within the oppressive systems we live in. She is currently working on a memoir/mindfulness book on reclaiming our power and freedom in the world, through her perspective as a Queer Asian woman and proud kid of Vietnamese refugees. Her personal essays on identity and healing have been published in New York Magazine’s The Cut, Newsweek, Buzzfeed, and more. You can follow her work and practice with her by subscribing to her mindfulness newsletter Just One Breath.
