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Cathy Linh Che

Kundiman

Cathy Linh Che (Executive Director | she/her) has worked in nonprofit administration, education, and publishing for over 15 years. In 2012, Cathy was hired as a communications consultant for Kundiman. In 2014, she became Kundiman’s Managing Director, and she was hired on as Executive Director in 2016. She has also worked for Kaya Press, New Directions Publishing, and Poets & Writers and has taught at New York University, Fordham University, The Polytechnic University at NYU, and Sierra Nevada College. Cathy is the author of the poetry collection Split (Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies.