Solby Lim
Solby Lim 임솔비 is the Communications Coordinator for Women Cross DMZ. She is a Korean diasporic researcher and storyteller based out of New York, NY. Solby graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College in 2022 with a degree in History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, where she completed a thesis on a cultural history of internationalism as forms of political and cultural intimacies between northern Korea (DPRK) and Third World Liberation movements during the 1960s. As an undergraduate student, Solby worked as editor and intern for Barnard’s Communications department, pitching and writing profile stories and campus news starting her sophomore year. Solby earned her master’s degree in Oral History from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2024, where she created Tidal Notes: A Critical Oral History of Asian and Asian/American Student Organizing at Columbia and Barnard, 1990s to 2020s. Additionally, she served as the public programming fellow for Columbia’s Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) program as a graduate student.
Solby previously interned for W. W. Norton & Co. and GLAAD’s Media Institute where she wrote for the organization’s blog and gathered research on LGBTQ+ athletes and policy for GLAAD’s annual Media Reference guide and for the 2020 and 2022 Olympic Games.
