E Lim (they/them) is the Director of Southern Regional Strategy at the Democracy Lab South.

Born and raised in Atlanta, E began organizing in Atlanta’s AAPI communities in 2015 during an internship with Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta. They continued to organize around housing and racial justice on campus before graduating from New York University with a B.A. in Systems of Power and Inequality in the United States. Afterward, they worked on electoral and issue campaigns in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston, and Muncie before returning to Georgia in 2017 to build power with the immigrant communities that raised them. E led the organizing and civic engagement strategy at Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta for four years, also Co-founding the Asian American Advocacy Fund in 2018, ATL Q+A in 2019, and The Devi Co-op in 2020.

In 2021, E stepped down as the Civic Engagement & Organizing Director at Advancing Justice - Atlanta to join the Demo Lab South project, with whom they now work to grow Southern organizing infrastructure by partnering with community organizations and leaders throughout the Southern region. Outside of their day job, they focus primarily on cultural, transformative, and healing justice organizing in QTBIPOC communities in and around Atlanta.