Kim (she/her/hers; Cherokee Nation) is a doctoral student in the Political Science Department. Her current research interests center around questions of language, self-determination, and sovereignty – particularly as those topics interact during the formation of education policy within Indigenous communities in the U.S. and language-minority communities in Europe.
She holds a master’s degree in international comparative education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education and bachelor’s degrees in linguistics and Spanish from the University of Georgia. Before arriving at Yale, Kim worked as a Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and taught as an English Teaching Assistant in Madrid, Spain, through the U.S. Fulbright Program.