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Please join the American Politics Workshop as they host Jae Yeon Kim, assistant research scientist at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and incoming assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Details forthcoming.

Jae Yeon Kim is an assistant research scientist at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Kim is also a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a fellow at the Better Government Lab at Georgetown’s McCourt School and Michigan’s Ford School. Starting January 2026, Jae Yeon Kim will join The University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill as an assistant professor of public policy. Kim is a computational political scientist focusing on urban, social, and tech policy in the United States. Specifically, Jae Yeon uses computational approaches to study (1) state capacity in policy implementation and (2) civic capacity in offline and online spaces. His recent projects seek to identify and reduce administrative burdens in U.S. safety net programs. To achieve this goal, Kim utilizes human-centered design, field experimentation, and surveys, collaborating with state and local governments and nonprofits.