About Us

Medium close-up photo of Jungwon Kim, a Korean American woman wearing a black V-neck dress with white dots. She has long black hair with copper highlights and is wearing plum-colored lipstick, smiling with lips closed. .

Superpower: Synthesis

Jungwon Kim is a multi-disciplinary communications strategist and advocate who has chronicled frontline environmental and human rights movements for the past two decades. She served for nine years as head of the creative & editorial team at the Rainforest Alliance and for eight years as the editor of Amnesty International, a quarterly human rights print magazine (circ. 300,000). She has also worked as a journalist for newspapers, magazines, and nationally syndicated public radio programs.

Jungwon is the board chair of Peace Is Loud and a board member of the Fund for Public Health NYC. She did her undergraduate and graduate studies (B.A. Philosophy, dual M.J./M.A. in Journalism and East Asian Studies) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded the Fulbright, Foreign Language Area Studies, and Korea Foundation fellowships. She is a writer, mother, co-founder of two BIPOC-centered sanghas, musician, and late-blooming surfer.

Medium close-up of Rachel B. Neumann, a white, Jewish woman with very curly brown hair falling onto her shoulders and red lipstick. She is smiling subtly, wearing a charcoal gray blazer and a simple black scoop-neck shirt underneath.

Superpower: Making the impossible inevitable

Rachel Neumann is the president and founder of Wave Literary, a holistic literary agency that works with visionaries to create the books we need for the world we want. Rachel has had the honor of working with authors ranging from the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh to Rick Rubin, Bryan Stevenson, and Jane Goodall. Her own writing has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Best Buddhist Writing. She is also a certified yoga and mindfulness teacher and perpetual handstand student.

Rachel is the author of five books, including Not Quite Nirvana, and the forthcoming How to Start a Fire. She has a teaching credential and a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New School University. She has a black belt in Kajukenbo Kung Fu.