of the East Bay provides legal assistance for immigration issues and social services for the elderly. Kim founded Asian Women United of California in 1976. Through her work with AWU, Kim wrote, produced, and directed documentaries about Asian American women such as Labor Women in 2002 and Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded in 2011. Kim was also a co-producer of the 1993 documentary, Sa-I-Gu: From Korean Women's Perspectives, which recounts the 1992 Los Angeles uprisings and their impact on the Korean American community. In 1985, Kim secured the initial funding for the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), an Oakland-based organization to serve immigrant women garment and hotel workers. Selected awards Asian Pacific American Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award (City and County of San Francisco), 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 2011 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2005 Hall of Outstanding Women at California, 1995 Fulbright Fellowship, 1987-1988 References External links Article "War Story" (c. 1950–1953, by Elaine H. Kim) Asian Women United of California Amazon book: Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism Korea Policy Institute: Advisory Board profile Korean Community Center of the East Bay Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Council of Korean Americans Women Make Movies Living people American writers of Korean descent American sociologists American women sociologists University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty American literary critics Women literary critics 1942 births 21st-century American women American women critics