Seung Kim is Senior Vice President at LISC and leads the National Programs unit including Child Care & Early Learning, Economic Development, Family Income & Wealth, Health, Safety & Justice and Sports & Recreation. She guides these programs in delivering technical and financial resources, thought leadership, program innovation and scaling, and external partnerships with an aim to enhance LISC’s impact in communities.
Seung has led the strategic expansion of LISC’s national workforce and asset building initiatives, through its network of Financial Opportunity Centers, and its Bridges to Career Opportunities initiative. She was also instrumental to successful program development for LISC’s growing network of business development partners focused on serving small businesses owned by people of color and women. She has championed community-focused and data-driven approaches to pilot, test, and scale promising program strategies.
Seung’s thought leadership and commitment to communities is widely recognized and exercised in her service on Advisory Councils for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on its Community and Economic Development sub-council, and the board of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions. Prior to joining the national LISC staff, Seung worked as a consultant with LISC Chicago on its Centers for Working Families network (she was a CWF financial coach on the Near West Side earlier in 2006) and with the national office on Financial Opportunity Centers.
Earlier, Seung was a Vice President, Fixed Income Analytics, for ANB Financial Group in Chicago and was an Associate, Trading and Analytics, for Performance Trust Companies. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Northwestern University and a master’s of business administration from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
