Gloria Kim
Fall 2021 John Jay Fellow
Hometown: Chantilly, VA
College: Swarthmore College
Degree: B.A. in Economics and Arabic Studies
Gloria Kim graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary with an M.A. in Religion in 2021. At Westminster, she learned Latin and translated excerpts of Lambert Daneau, a 16th-century Huguenot jurist and Calvinist theologian. In her independent study, Gloria researched the positionality of property and property ownership in Augustine’s theology of human society. Outside of classes, she was involved in Westminster’s Global Missions Fellowship and her local church.
Gloria graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Economics and Arabic Studies with honors in 2019. She was involved in her college community as a Student Academic Mentor, member of the College Judiciary Committee, Dean’s Tutor and teaching assistant in the Economics and Arabic departments, and chair of the American Enterprise Institute’s Swarthmore chapter. Some of her internship and externship experiences were at the Hudson Institute, Manhattan Institute, and Harvard Law School. In 2016-2017, she went on a gap year in Jordan, South Korea, Thailand, and Myanmar.
Gloria hopes to utilize her language trainings in Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek in her academic and professional work. She plans to continue her studies through law school and further the research in the intersection of law, economics, and theology as it pertains to the legal and environmental rights of religious minorities globally. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, jigsaw puzzles, and cooking for friends.