--- title: Joel Kim Booster Is on the TIME100 Next 2022 List description: Find out how Joel Kim Booster is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213738/joel-kim-booster/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-09-28T09:40:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:05:57.547Z og:title: 2022 TIME100 Next: Joel Kim Booster og:description: Find out why Joel Kim Booster is on this year’s TIME100 Next list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213738/joel-kim-booster/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0b5f2eb34b3805d0/698a35de4ee262804231aa0f/time100-next-joel-kim-booster-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2022 TIME100 Next: Joel Kim Booster og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2022 TIME100 Next: Joel Kim Booster twitter:description: Find out why Joel Kim Booster is on this year’s TIME100 Next list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0b5f2eb34b3805d0/698a35de4ee262804231aa0f/time100-next-joel-kim-booster-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 28, 2022 # Joel Kim Booster by Margaret Cho  Nelson Huang for TIME When we wrapped [_Fire Island_](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/movies/fire-island-joel-kim-booster-interview.html)_,_ which [Joel Kim Booster](https://time.com/6189174/joel-kim-booster-interview/) wrote, produced, and starred in, we were given a gift of shorts that said IT’S GIVING MOVIE. That’s exactly what I think when I look at Joel. He’s giving star. He’s giving excellence. He’s giving the queer Asian Americans something truly amazing to aspire to. And he’s giving laughter and lots of important observations on race, class, culture, sex, and being gay in all of those realms. He’s giving voice to the previously unheard and unknown. He’s giving a gorgeous face to the invisible. As a fellow Asian American queer comedian, he’s giving community. And together, we are giving family. _Cho is a comedian and Emmy-­nominated actor_  Nelson Huang for TIME _Styled by Corey Ng; Grooming by Sierra Elliott_ _Set Design by Julia Tang_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213738/joel-kim-booster/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213738/joel-kim-booster/"},"headline":"Joel Kim Booster","datePublished":"2022-09-28T09:40:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:05:57.547Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213738/joel-kim-booster/","keywords":["TIME 100 Next"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0b5f2eb34b3805d0/698a35de4ee262804231aa0f/time100-next-joel-kim-booster-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0b5f2eb34b3805d0/698a35de4ee262804231aa0f/time100-next-joel-kim-booster-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213738/joel-kim-booster/","name":"Joel Kim Booster"}}]}] ```