Hyepin Im currently serves as the Founder and President of Korean Churches for Community Development (KCCD) whose mission is to help churches build capacity to do economic development work on a greater scale. Among KCCD's successes include organizing and reaching out to the 3300 Korean American churches in the United States including two conferences with the White House bringing together a national delegation of Asian American faith leaders to learn about the faith-based economic development.
Ms. Im is involved in several civic activities related to faith-based economic development. Hyepin Im serves on the Steering Committee of Churches United for Economic Development, a chamber of commerce for churches involved with economic development. Most recently, Ms. Im has been asked to serve as the Chair for the Asian Faith Commission for Assemblymember Herb Wesson. Hyepin has been a frequent speaker at numerous events on leadership, community service, fundraising, faith-based economic development and on the Asian American community.
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