Taekyong (Taek) Kim is the Senior Vice President of the Center for Civic Growth at the Youth Institute in Policy. His involvement in politics was ignited when he started working for a local congressional political campaign, and found his passion for voter engagement when he started to be involved with New Voters, a youth voter registration organization. During his first months in YIP, he was the Institute’s director of Voter Engagement, and eventually took on the SVP role that would encompass broader elements of civic engagement.