Kim Thai (she/her) is an interdisciplinary mindfulness writer and teacher. As an Emmy award-winning storyteller and a proud queer child of Vietnamese refugees, she has uplifted marginalized voices across different mediums for almost 20 years. Her personal essays on identity, healing and social justice have been published in New York Magazine’s The Cut, Newsweek, Buzzfeed and more. She is a certified yoga and meditation teacher and a student in Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Plum Village Buddhist tradition, exploring how we can liberate ourselves from oppressive systems and release embodied trauma through mindfulness. Kim is the 2026-2028 Sullivan County Poet Laureate.
