A scientist, executive, and Harvard grad, Richard hails from an Eastern Europe background. His grandfather was a prominent Socialist in the midwest in the 1920’s, who served as a Milwaukee city councilman, before becoming a lawyer.

Kim’s grandfather was born in Milan to a family in the textile business but immigrated to the US to find his own fortune. He got a job at the antacid company Brioschi, one of the few businesses in New York that would hire Italian immigrants. Eventually he ran Brioschi--and did so well he later bought the company.

At 12 Eva Haller joined the Hungarian Resistance against the Nazi occupation, eventually fleeing to the USA, where she marched  in Selma alongside Martin Luther King Jr.