Jee Mee Kim, AICP

Vice President + Director of Planning + Design

As Director of Planning and Design, Jee Mee Kim oversees a staff of planners and urban designers and specializes in transportation planning and analysis, environmental planning, and public involvement efforts. During her nearly 10 years at SSE, Kim has directed award-winning transportation planning studies, often requiring significant public feedback and agency coordination. These studies have resulted in designs that reduce and redesign roadway space, accommodate non-auto modes, and add new public and open space. She has also managed on numerous environmental reviews pursuant to New York City's Environmental Quality Review Act, as well as NEPA-required public involvement projects.

Prior to joining SSE, Kim worked as a community organizer in New York City's Asian immigrant neighborhoods in addition to working at the Urban Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council. She has a Bachelors of Arts in History at the New School for Social Research, a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting from Parsons School of Design, has completed coursework from the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and holds a Masters of Urban Planning from New York University.