Dae Shik Kim is a Seattle-based creative development and production leader with more than 15 years of experience across documentary, digital series, video podcasts, social video, and platform-native storytelling. He has worked on feature-length documentaries and premium documentary programming at VICE, helped build major digital series and formats at CUT, and now works in video strategy and creative development for Spotify.
Raised in Hawai‘i, Dae found his way into storytelling through journalism, advocacy journalism, and community organizing. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, and South Seattle Emerald, often focused on race, homelessness, policing, and social equity. Across his work, Dae is driven by a belief that powerful storytelling can expand who is seen, who is heard, and who gets to shape culture.