Kim briefed National Press Foundation fellows in February 2022: Build Sources from the Outside In. She also briefed fellows in January 2023: How to Succeed in the Washington Press Corps. 

Seung Min Kim is a White House reporter for The Associated Press, specializing in the nexus of the Biden administration and Capitol Hill. Before joining the AP in July 2022, she had the same beat at The Washington Post, where she led the publication’s coverage on President Biden’s legislative agenda, Donald Trump’s relationships – and battles – with Congress, and three Supreme Court confirmation fights. She has also served as a political analyst for CNN since 2018.

Seung Min’s first major reporting role in Washington was as a congressional reporter for Politico, where she spent more than eight years and primarily covered the Senate. She has also worked at USA Today; The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J.; the St. Paul Pioneer Press; the St. Petersburg Times and The Des Moines Register.

She is the current president of the Washington Press Club Foundation and a longtime member of the Asian American Journalists Association. She earned undergraduate degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Iowa, which named her its Distinguished Recent Graduate in 2021, and a graduate degree in journalism from American University. Seung Min serves on the advisory board for the University of Iowa’s political science department and is active in mentoring the next generation of journalists.