About Us

City Bridge is a team of individuals who share the desire to take responsibility for our city. We are currently researching and strategizing ways to meet some of New York City's social needs. We hope others in the New York metropolitan area will join us in seeking the good of our city.

Our First Steps

City Bridge's immediate goal is to create a vision followed by a business plan. Seeking to identify a strategic opportunity, our leadership team has a double focus:

Communities in obvious need yet lacking the organizational presence for change

Available and significant resources yet untapped

Helping Us

In order to move forward we are asking for financial support, which will be utilized as seed money in the initial stages of establishing City Bridge. Additionally, we are looking for people willing to volunteer their professional skills to our efforts.

Ezra Sohn
Chief Executive Officer

Brandon Song
Chief Operating Officer

Jennifer H. Kim
Chief Communications Officer

Ronnie Kim
Chief Marketing Officer

Lisa Song
Chief Administrative Officer

Christina Jang
Lauren Park
Michelle Kim
Ji Young Yu
Founding Members

Conference/education	$1000/month
Executive consultation	$1000/month
Stipends	$1000/month
Travel reimbursement	$1000/month

A few words from our leaders...

Ezra Sohn
Chief Executive Officer

After ten years of pastoral ministry, I abruptly came to realize that my work was no longer consistent with my beliefs. I have stepped away from full-time ministry since January to reconsider how I can live a life more consistent with my spiritual convictions. City Bridge is a personal venture rooted in my desire to serve the poor and side with the oppressed. Since it is my desire to fight injustice and poverty on a systemic and comprehensive level with long-term results, it is necessary to work on an organizational level capable of mobilizing the resources required to meet such incredible needs. I am grateful for those who have come alongside me in seeking the good of our city, from my closest friends to executive directors of internationally recognized organizations.

Brandon Song
Chief Operating Officer

At age twenty I realized I wanted to live my life in a way that meaningfully impacted the lives of others. From teaching high school math in Brooklyn to doing mission work in Africa, I have accomplished this in the short-term. In doing so I saw firsthand the needs inherent in most societies as well as injustices that history will prove inexcusable. My current goal is to go deeper by investing myself fully in one particular location and cause. New York City is a place where the opportunities and the needs are both found in abundance. City Bridge is a way to aim for long-term impact by meeting the needs of the city and reversing injustices in a focused, strategic manner, all while doing so alongside others sharing a similar vision. I am excited to be a part of it!

Jennifer H. Kim
Chief Communications Officer

I have little memory of my childhood before the age of ten. Growing up in Flushing in the 80's, the earlier years of my life were spent in fear. The things I remember: hearing gunshots from the street behind our apartment, watching my mother being held up by gunpoint, peering out the fenced window of my elementary classroom, having to find new ways to entertain myself with the same T.V. shows as I hide behind our triple bolted apartment door. Life was about survival. Hoping for a future was a foreign concept. Only when we moved to the suburbs of New Jersey did I find hopes and dreams as I freely roamed our town, collaboratively learned through group projects, and reigned over the tire swings during recess. Even as a young child, my heart grew indignant towards the disparity of opportunities provided the children growing up in these two environments. As I pursued studies in education, my heart's desire was to provide secure and hopeful educational experiences for children living in the most underserved communities. I believe that all children–all people–deserve the opportunity to hope and dream beyond the limits of their imagination. I also believe that we, who have been given these blessed opportunities, must collaborate to foster this "dream-building" within our neighboring communities. My hope for City Bridge is to begin this dreaming by sharing our lives, resources, skills, and stories.

Ronnie Kim
Chief Marketing Officer

My greatest passion and joy is to see people's lives changed. This passion comes from my desire to give life to children living in global poverty, as witnessed on many commercials asking for financial donations. My initial response to the commercials was, "Man, I don't want to just donate money, I want to go there and help them." However, since leaving behind everything and packing my bags to go to these third-world countries would be a hasty decision, I figured why not start locally and serve the destitute and homeless in my area. Working professionally as a Branch Manager at Chase Bank, my desire is not to sit at a distance and merely donate money. I want to invest my skills, time, and heart in this effort of serving my community through City Bridge.

info@citybridge.org | P.O. Box 2246, Fort Lee, NJ 07024