About
Josephine M. Kim is senior lecturer on education at the Harvard graduate school 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 Fellowship 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 Keyword(s)
anti-racist pedagogy, ethnic studies, promotion of mental health and prevention of psychological risk