Kim Samuel
Kim Samuel’s Biography
Kim Samuel is an author, educator, and a leading voice in the global movement to combat social isolation. She created and taught a first-of-its-kind course in the study of social isolation at McGill University, and she regularly lectures at academic institutions including the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and the London School of Economics. She is the founder of the Belonging Forum, a “think-and-do tank” that partners with leading advocacy groups and research organisations to build systems of belonging in diverse contexts. An opinion contributor to numerous news outlets around the world, Kim is also the author of On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation (Abrams Press 2022), an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and humanity's right to belong.