Sean Lim Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

- MN State Senator Omar Fateh's campaign for Mayor of Minneapolis: FatehForMayor.com- Campaign core team & Communications Team- Campaign Logo design, digital graphic design and illustration

- Omar Fateh for Mayor of Minneapolis (2025)- Erica Zweifel for Mayor of Northfield (2024 General Election)- Ned Carroll for MN State House, 42A (2024 General Election)- Paul Cumings for South St. Paul School Board (2024 General Election)- Isabel Rolfes for MN State House, 61A (Primary Race)

- Building upon a historic environmental justice victory, working to realize the community’s vision of an Indoor Urban Farm (not toxic harm), and implementing a novel community ownership & governance model.- Lead and oversee a Community Outreach Team of 30+ member-volunteers, including representatives from partner organizations, community leaders, and East Phillips residents.- Spearhead EPNI's community outreach efforts in East Phillips / Little Earth, engaging constituents, residents & stakeholders through popular education and bi-monthly office hours.- Ensuring that community members are kept up-to-date on project developments and their dreams & desires are reflected in the planning process through large monthly Community Meetings.- Convening the Community Advisory Group and holding intake meetings with prospective tenants.

- Local Art Collective hosting weekly art builds. Steward of shared studio space, upkeep & organizing.- Mutual Aid & Fundraising spokes lead - using patch/print sales to support on-the-ground organizing.- Focused on creating movement artwork for environmental justice actions and campaigns- screen printing posters, patches, shirts, rally/protest signage and creation of larger drop banners

- Organized to elect Greta Callahan to the Minneapolis School Board, representing District 6.- Door-knocking apartments & blocks in various neighborhoods across Southwest, Minneapolis.- Daily canvassing, visibility, and get-out-the-vote efforts in the week leading up to Election Day.

- The Paper Lantern Project is an emerging AAPI Gender & Reproductive Justice Mutual Aid Fund and Arts Movement in Minnesota.- Forming new narratives through the arts and offering care-centered support through economic and cultural liberation. - Contributing member of the first-ever PLP cohort (Summer 2024).- One of 19 AAPI contributors of PLP's first publication & debut zine: ‘Cut Fruit: Creative Offerings, Stories, & Art from Future Ancestors’ www.thepaperlanternproject.com

- Artist for the MFT ESP Local 59 Union. Created "Invest In MPS!" placards, patches, and postcards- Worked with Contract Negotiation Team to ideate slogans for banners during mediation / escalation.- Hand-painted numerous banners for actions, informational pickets, rallies, and events: "Solidarity Forever", "Stop The Decline, So MPS Can Shine!", "3 + 2 Just Won't Do!", "Keep Music & Arts in MPS", "Solidarity Forever", "ESP Make Schools Happen! / One Job Should Be Enough!". "Union Pride - Moving Further Together"

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

- Cohort aimed at growing social empowerment and leadership development through storytelling.- 10 emergent Southeast Asian artists & change makers, aged 18-25 from around the country.- Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, cross-generational approach through arts & advocacy.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

- Each winter, Art Shanty Projects hosts an immersive art program on a frozen Bdé Umáŋ / Lake Harriet.- Artists embrace the challenges and opportunities of winter and the ephemeral nature of a frozen winter landscape to create a temporary vibrant and colorful public art community- 2024 & 2025 Project: 'A Poem for Entangled Living': an interactive installation on ice.

Oakland, Ca, Us

- Documented public testimony and rally at the Army Corps public comment meeting in Bismarck, ND.- Created a suite of graphics to mobilize and generate public comment regarding the Environmental Impact Statement on the Dakota Access Pipeline - Lake Oahe crossing.

- Designed second pass campaign literature booklet to be left at voters' doors across Ward 12.- Designed of early voting mailer sent to residents of Ward 12.- Designed targeted issue mailer on public safety & climate action, sent to select universe of voters.- Designed refreshed campaign literature booklet & final letter to residents. kitchen cabinet member.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

- Create and manage execution of a Program Plan aligned with staff and organizational mission.- Supervise + support Program Team Staff (12 person dept.), Oversee creation of MNYC's Voter Guide.- Manage and mentor 19 fellows in 2022 & 2023 cohorts of 10-week Policy Fellowship Program - Utilize data tools and databases to track + achieve programmatic projects, initiatives, and goals.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

- Led MNYC’s Mutual Aid organizing work with the St. Paul Camps Support collective.- Assisted in the 2021 Organizing Fellowship, helping to train 6 Campus + 4 EA Fellows.- Base-Building and Electoral Work: issue campaigns, programmatic events, mobilization.- Assisted with digital content creation and social media graphics. Union member, OPEIU Local 12.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

- Tasked with coalition building and outreach across the UMN, Twin Cities campuses.- Virtual organizing: GOTV text banking, working with 7 SW1501 students on an UMN admin accountability campaign regarding COVID response, cost of tuition, quality of online classes.- Pre-Pandemic: mobilizing, organizing, empowering young people to turn out in elections. Hosting events, class presentations, campus-wide canvassing, dorm tabling, 1:1 interviews.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

- Serving as Co-Chair of MNYC's on-campus UMN Student Group | 2019-2021- I represent MNYC in engaging with students about the issues that matter most to them.- Civic-engagement, event planning, connecting with student activists, organizers, UMN staff.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

- Helped prepare a new office for MNYC's transition, co-leading creative design and painting.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

- I was one of 11 fellows in this intensive summer fellowship on political organizing, events; workshops. I worked on the 'Democracy Done Right' team + 'At What Cost?' issue campaign.- Designed/planned sticker/social media campaigns to educate / raise awareness about voting accessibility + financial barriers MN's Transgender folx have in the name change process.- Events: fellowship showcase - Lake Monster, exhibited art at the 'Broke AF' campaign's mixer 'exploring what "home" means to a generation with limited resources' - Q.arma Gallery.

- Grassroots coalition, weekly planning meetings organizing to implement strong Rent Control in MPLS!- Applying grassroots pressure on Minneapolis City Council members to support strong rent control.- Planning and hosting community events to increase awareness about the urgent need for rent control.- Learn more and get plugged in: linktr.ee/MplsUnited4RentControl

- @StpCampSupport: a mutual aid collective supporting needs of encampments & residents.- Liaison for MNYC & SPCS - Steward of the Mutual Aid Hub and Social Media manager.- Run the Mutual Aid Fund, which has redistributed $40,000+ directly to our unhoused neighbors!- Tasked with Fundraising, Supply Intake, Itemization/Sorting, Hub Organization, Redistribution.

- Meeting with core transition team post-election, in preparation for inauguration day.- Observer and campaign representative at the historic Ward 2 City Council recount.- Tracking Ward 2 boundary changes at Charter Commission & Redistricting Group meetings.

- Organized to elect the 1st Independent Black Socialist Council-member in MN history.- Coordinated Campus Team to mobilize UMN students, won campus precincts by a landslide.- Comprehensive Campus GOTV plan: events, knocking every dorm, final knock + drags.- Designed campus specific literature & engaged students daily on issues impacting them.

- Heal, Build, and Rise Up: Robin Wonsley Worlobah is running to represent Ward 2 as the very first Black Democratic Socialist City Council member in Minneapolis. (robinformpls.com)- Canvassed individually across Como, Cooper, Longfellow, Seward, Prospect Park & beyond.- Engaging voters about Robin's historic campaign and rent control in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

- Worked in the Tanisha M. Fazal Lab, comprised of 9 Research Assistants.- Produced a Write-Up on The Eritrean–Ethiopian War / Badme Border Conflict of 1998-2000.- A large, ongoing historical data collection and coding effort on global wartime medicine.

St Paul, Minnesota, Us

- Team of 6 UMN CFANS capstone students working on a comprehensive research report.- Goal: prepare & expand Hopkins' urban forest canopy to adapt to climate change / effects.- Presented research to project partners: Hopkins City Planners + MN DNR. Proposed key recommendations for partners: best practices and species to prepare city for climate change.

Burlington, Vermont, Us

- Co-Founder and Co-Chair | 2019-2020 Students for Bernie UMTC chapter.- UMTC student group organizing for Bernie Sanders' grassroots Presidential bid. - Won all 11/11 UMN precincts, averaging 63.5% of the total vote on/off Minneapolis campus.- Increasing youth voter participation in progressive politics. Weekly meeting, campus / interstate (MN, IL, IA, WI) GOTV, event planning, student engagement, outreach/social media.

Burlington, Vermont, Us

- S4B Campus Corps Training graduate. Organizing training modules with campaign staff.- Political Education + My Bernie Story, Friend to Friend Organizing, Campus Canvassing, Organizing Events + Recruitment 101, Creating Organizing Plans. - Slack, Bern, track / report.

Washington, Dc, Us

- Co-founded Sunrise Movement at UMN-TC (strike circle / student group)- Tasked with social media management, digital design, signal boosting events and initiatives

- Signal boosting student group events / initiatives on campus (strikes, resolutions, meetings, rep group in coalition building with other groups, video media campaigns, etc).- Aided campaign to get 2 Campus-wide Referenda onto ballot, online GOTV for measures:- 1). Divestment from Fossil Fuels & 2). Declaration of a Climate Emergency

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

- Set up & ran a weekly all-day Saturday 'Adult Makerspace' program at RCL Roseville. - Hands-on learning: software + technology to create artwork (Silhouette cameo, tinkercad).- Teaching library patrons to 3D-print, design/craft vinyl stickers, and use Virtual Reality.

St Paul, Minnesota, Us

- Team of 5 UMN students who aimed to amend the Minneapolis Urban Forest Canopy Policy.- Goal: tackling neighborhood tree disparities by adding equity provision with future metrics.- Met City Hall staff. Successfully lobbied Minneapolis Tree Advisory Commission (MTAC) to mobilize on the issue (urban canopy equity), address City Council / Parks & Rec Board.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

- Mobilized and engaged college students and young voters ahead of the Fall 2018 midterms.- Designed GOTV themed stickers for mass production in a multi-campus sticker campaign.- Fieldwork: classroom/auditorium presentations, volunteer recruitment, dorm/event tabling, canvassing, candidate door-knocks. Utilized tracking/reporting systems. Election Night GOTV.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

- Month-long 18 piece art installation and exhibition at local pizzeria, Pizza Lucé - Selby Ave.- Featured work: framed series of wildlife/nature prints. Medium: watercolor / photography.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Sciences, Policy, And Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science