Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University
About
Josephine M. Kim is senior lecturer on education at the Harvard graduate dchool of education. Her expertise encompasses the cultural/racial identity development in youth; intergenerational trauma and cultural adjustment in immigrant families; promotion of mental health and prevention of psychological risk; intercultural understanding and cultural brokering in migratory populations; and anti-racist pedagogy and practices. She is the former faculty director of the Office of D & I at Harvard school of dental medicine and is an internationally known speaker/consultant on cross-cultural, DEIJ, mental health, and educational issues to media sources, corporations, and schools in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. She's a former resident fellow in the administrative Fellowhip program at the Office of the Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity at Harvard University and is expert on diversity & inclusion and training design (focused on antiracism in the workplace).
Current Work:
In the state of Massachusetts, I'm part of a coalition that helped to file two bills at the House of Reps and at the Senate that would mandate K-12 public schools to teach ethnic studies (accurate racial history and contributions of marginalized communities and racial literacy). The bills, if passed, would create a Commission on Ethnic Studies that would oversee the roll-out of this initiative.
Research Area(s):
- anti-racist pedagogy; ethnic studies; promotion of mental health and prevention of psychological risk
