E. Tammy Kim is a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times Previously, Kim was on the editorial staff at The New Yorker and was a national features writer at Al Jazeera America. Kim's work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Yorker. She is a co-author and co-editor of "Punk Ethnography," a book about the politics of contemporary world music.Before pursuing a career in journalism, Kim was an attorney at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center, the inaugural fellow at the Ms. Foundation for Women and a judicial clerk to Janet Bond Arterton of the U.S. District Court of Connecticut. She has taught undergraduate courses at the Cooper Union, Yale University and the City University of New York.