Junha Kim is currently the Associate Pastor for Youth, Mission & Service, and Community Engagement, at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Northeast Portland. He is a 1.5 generation immigrant from Korea, whose family emigrated to the uniquely familiar Koreatown in Los Angeles, where he first developed a heart for intersectional allyship and justice.
Junha sees himself as a pastor and activist – not in any particular order, and often (to the annoyance of friends), both at all times. He advocates for reparative reform and justice, equity, and the universality of basic human rights through community involvement, volunteering, and helping leaders build grassroots movements. As a liberationist theologian, he writes and preaches from a foundation of Womanist theologies, ethics, and methods, drawing from his study of Black history, religion, and culture, and from his lived experience of being a Korean American learning about Black history, religion, and culture.
Junha studied Peace and Conflict Studies, and Philosophy at UC Berkeley, before pursuing his Master of Divinity at Vanderbilt Divinity School. He is looking to complete his PhD in Comparative Theology and Ethics at the Graduate Theological Union by 2027.