Staff
Jongdae “JD” Kim
Executive Director
Jongdae Kim was born in the U.S. due to his family who then were political refugees from South Korea. Living in an evermore pluralizing world, he co-founded Re'Generation Movement with a mission to make society a more welcoming and integrated place for diverse groups of people. By educating diasporic youths with refugee or immigrant experiences and creating rooms for conversations on peace, he plants small seeds that hopefully will bloom as a more hospitable society. Recently, he translated Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis into Korean to help the Korean churches as they try to figure out their role in the current refugee crisis.
Previously, Kim worked as a program coordinator for the Office of Global Strategy and Initiatives / The Halle Institute at Emory University, where he also received his MBA degree and B.A in Sociology. He also serves as an advisory board member at Friends of Refugees.
Grace Choi
Chief Operating Officer
Paul Mvukiye-Reeser
Director of Development and Programs
Paul is an experienced peacebuilder, community leader, facilitator, teacher, and friend. You can often find him playing, dancing, singing or creating art with young people in the Clarkston community where he has lived and worked for over 10 years. Paul is a familiar face in schools, neighborhoods, nonprofit organizations, community centers and religious spaces where he has led collaborative, peace and justice initiatives in the Clarkston community. These initiatives include Peace Playground which teaches nonviolence through creative forms of expression like art, dance, drama, poetry and music, Conflict Transformation groups is a school-based program where young people learn about engaging conflict in transformative and healthy ways, and Community Cirlces where young people explore important topics like safety and peace. The diversity of peacebuilding initiatives Paul has led range from sports and arts to agriculture and faith. Paul believes young people embody the future and has invested his life in the transformational power of these young lives. Paul will be leading the Peacebuilder Academy at Re’Generation Movement. He is excited to join young peacebuilders as a co-learner, practice partner and mentor as they imagine a more beautiful, just and peaceful world.
Paul holds a Master's degree from the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding where he studied restorative justice and conflict transformation.