Marina Kim

Marina is a culture strategist and trusted advisor to visionary leaders, helping startups, philanthropists, and social impact organizations build high-trust, high-performance teams.

A life history interview specialist, Marina works with Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs and a global leader in social innovation, to identify world-changing changemakers. Through in-depth interviews, she uncovers key influences that shaped their entrepreneurial life path.

She currently serves as a Culture Strategist for Adyton, a venture-backed startup led by military veterans that develops software solutions for the DoD. In this role, she works to cultivate a high-performance team culture aligned with the company’s mission of serving those who serve.

Marina serves on the Strategic Advisory Board of NYU Stern’s Initiative on Purpose & Flourishing, guiding efforts to integrate purpose-driven leadership into workplaces. She is a Board Member at CoGenerate, where she champions cross-generational collaboration to tackle society’s most pressing challenges. She also contributes to the Paradigm Project Working Group, helping reimagine higher education as a more holistic and inclusive space.

Her career began as a student leader at Stanford, and she then co-founded and scaled Ashoka U for over a decade, building a global network of hundreds of universities committed to social impact. Recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree for Social Entrepreneurship, Marina was awarded the Tom Ford Fellowship in Philanthropy from Stanford University and named an Honorary Fellow of the University of Northampton. She holds a BA in International Relations from Stanford University.