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Cartoon-style avatar of Christine wiseflower Kim with red and pink hair, framed in a circle with the text “AAA2025” above her.

christine "wiseflower" kim | 김지영
pronouns: she/her (primary), they/them (also ok!)
UC Irvine Anthropology, BA'21 -PHD (expected '27 🤞)
"Human Smell 사람 냄새" Anthropologist ™️
Deaf VR, KSL+, speculative digital ethnographylanguages: Korean (native & annual Seoul trips),
Mandarin (BA'21 chinese, but it's been a while).

speaker introduction slide created for AAA 2025 roundtable: Specters of technology.

"Technology removes the smell of being human."
Roundtable/Townhall participant,
3619 Specters of Technology (Saturday 12:45pm, Sheraton Napolean BR A3, floor 3)

coffee chat, anyone?

I will be in New Orleans from Friday morning (11/21/2025) to Monday afternoon (11/24/2025).I, and my tiny but mighty service dog Terry, would love to meet you here, "in person" !

Christine wiseflower Kim holding her Papillon service dog Terry at his certification ceremony, standing in front of a wall of service dog training diplomas.

Terry (breed: Papillon, "butterfly dog") is a fully trained service dog from Cosmos Working Dogs a 501(c)3 nonprofit. He was just placed with me in November, and AAA 2025 is his debut performance! YAY! GO TERRY!