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Hye Jung Kim is the Chief Operating Officer and Lead Instructor of Education Incubator (EI), a nonprofit dedicated to empowering young people, adults and communities to live with passion and purpose in service of a better world. EI works with kids and community to design and implement unique place-based, solution-oriented initiatives based on the core value of Innovation With Aloha. EI has worked with hundreds of youth through in- and out-of-school programs to approach community problem-solving and solution-generating through the lens of passion, purpose, and positive change, serving dozens of clients in local communities with authenticity and aloha.
Hye Jung was born in South Korea, raised in Mount Dora, Florida, and has lived in Hawaiʻi since 2009. She is a volunteer crew member of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and has led Nā Kelamoku youth group. Upon graduating from the University of Central Florida with her bachelor of science degree in pure mathematics, she attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for her master's degree in mathematic and served as a fellow at the National Science Foundation’s GK-12 program. Hye Jung has worked with youth in public, charter, and independent K-12 schools across different islands of Hawaiʻi, and at the University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu and Kapiolani Community College as a mathematics and mathematics education instructor. Her journey has been elevated through the birth of her two children, 3-year-old Hayden and 6-month-old Haylee, and her life co-captain and spouse, DJ.
Hye Jung has served as a Wayfinder training guide and curriculum consultant since 2015, helping to bring her inspiration from Polynesian navigation and wayfinding to schools and learning organizations across Hawaiʻi and other countries of the Pacific.
