A message from Kim Wall's family

Hello,

Within one month of launching our campaign, the Kim Wall Memorial Fund has received more than 80,000 dollars from over a thousand individuals, many of them strangers. We have been overwhelmed, amazed and inspired by your generosity. We are so utterly grateful.

Kim was an extraordinary friend, daughter, colleague. As a journalist, her work reflected her own sensibility—a resolutely post-colonialist and feminist outlook that shook up clichés and Western-centric narratives about development and empowerment. We will honor her legacy by supporting the kind of work she would have done.

“As a small child, she was very determined in everything she did,” Kim’s mother Ingrid Wall said. Before Kim turned one, she had traveled to most European countries, and had followed her parents, both of whom are journalists, on assignments on countless reporting trips. This, her mother thought, might disincline her from being drawn to what she calls the best profession. But growing up in a household that was organized around storytelling, it was natural that Kim would grow up to be a storyteller of the highest caliber.

Today, we are writing with a message from the Wall family.


We are close to the finish line, and hope that with your support, we will achieve our goal.

Yours,
Her friends Adam Perez, Dhiya Kuriakose, May Jeong and Mansi Choksi