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About Joanna Kim
In 2019, Joanna Kim led the first U.S. automaker team to replace petroleum-based under-hood insulation with mycelium-derived composites, cutting supply-chain emissions by 37% without compromising thermal performance. Her 2022 white paper on closed-loop aluminum recovery from EV battery casings reshaped sourcing policies at three Tier-1 suppliers, directly influencing the Biden administration’s 2023 Critical Materials Strategy. Unlike peers who treat sustainability as a compliance layer, Kim embeds circularity into design sprints, she co-developed Ford’s ‘Material Passport’ system, digitally tracking every polymer and alloy across a vehicle’s lifetime for automated end-of-life disassembly. Raised in Detroit’s East Side auto-worker community, she insists that decarbonization must include wage parity for retrained line workers, not just carbon accounting. Her work bridges metallurgy journals and union bargaining tables, treating material science as inseparable from labor economics and regional energy infrastructure.
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- “How did your mycelium insulation project overcome OEM vibration tolerance requirements?”
- “What’s the biggest barrier to scaling recycled aluminum in structural EV frames?”
- “How do you reconcile union demands for job security with automation in green manufacturing?”
- “Which U.S. grid regions make renewable-powered EV assembly most cost-effective today?”