Acting General Manager
Mikyung Kim-Molina is the Acting General Manager for the Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative (BAUASI). Mikyung oversees numerous initiatives including cybersecurity, combating domestic violent extremism, targeted violence and terrorism prevention, regional catastrophic planning, community resilience, and threat hazard identification and risk assessment planning. Mikyung has also overseen projects related to public information alert and warning, law enforcement information and intelligence sharing, and interoperable communications.
Mikyung has first-hand emergency response experience and has been deployed during multiple San Francisco Emergency Operations Center (EOC) activations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mikyung was deployed for nearly two years to the San Francisco Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to serve as the Deputy Joint Information Center (JIC) Chief of Operations. She was also deployed to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) EOC, a National Special Security Event (NSSE).
In her prior role with the BAUASI, Mikyung was responsible for developing professional services contracts with consultants and creating Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with sub-recipient jurisdictions. Prior to joining the BAUASI, Mikyung was the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Grants Manager for the San Francisco Human Services Agency. While at the San Francisco Human Services Agency, she also served as a Contracts Manager and a Program Manager for a federally subsidized housing program that serves unhoused individuals and families with co-occurring disorders. She has also worked for various other City Departments including the Department of Public Health, the Board of Supervisors Budget Analyst’s Office, and the Adult Probation Department.
She holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from SFSU and a BA degree in Legal Studies with a minor in American Literature from UC Berkeley. Mikyung was educated and raised in the Bay Area.