Jae Yeon Kim
@jaeyeonkim.bsky.social
incoming asst prof of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data science @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder
https://jaeyk.github.io
https://jaeyk.github.io
2nd day at the GovAI Coalition Summit
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
2nd day at the GovAI Coalition Summit
Here at the GovAI Coalition Summit until this Friday
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Here at the GovAI Coalition Summit until this Friday
This week's reading list. Some of these are rereads. One of them, When Care Is Conditional, is by Dani Carrillo, an old friend from my graduate school years. I was in political science, and Dani was in sociology, but we were both part of the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop (IIW).
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This week's reading list. Some of these are rereads. One of them, When Care Is Conditional, is by Dani Carrillo, an old friend from my graduate school years. I was in political science, and Dani was in sociology, but we were both part of the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop (IIW).
The full moon over the lake
October 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The full moon over the lake
FYI, if you try to measure the strength of civil society (what Hahrie, Milan, and I call civic opportunity in our 2023 Nature Human Behaviour paper), you may want to consider using our org-, county-, and ZIP code-level datasets published in Scientific Data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
FYI, if you try to measure the strength of civil society (what Hahrie, Milan, and I call civic opportunity in our 2023 Nature Human Behaviour paper), you may want to consider using our org-, county-, and ZIP code-level datasets published in Scientific Data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It’s not easy to see, but this is San Francisco’s Department of Social Services canvassing plan in Chinatown, 1969. DSS and the local Office of Economic Opportunity targeted five poverty areas, and Chinatown had the lowest enrollment.
October 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It’s not easy to see, but this is San Francisco’s Department of Social Services canvassing plan in Chinatown, 1969. DSS and the local Office of Economic Opportunity targeted five poverty areas, and Chinatown had the lowest enrollment.
More information on my fall schedule is here:
September 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
More information on my fall schedule is here:
Great-tailed grackle, right? Spotted it during the morning walk.
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Great-tailed grackle, right? Spotted it during the morning walk.
Today's second practice
September 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Today's second practice
I started drawing again. It has been a while, so I’m a bit rusty.
September 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I started drawing again. It has been a while, so I’m a bit rusty.
Fieldwork in East Vancouver (Strathcona / Chinatown)
September 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Fieldwork in East Vancouver (Strathcona / Chinatown)
During the main conference, I’ll be on two panels, including one I co-organized with Alex Hertel-Fernandez (Columbia) on the politics of administrative burden (see below),
September 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
During the main conference, I’ll be on two panels, including one I co-organized with Alex Hertel-Fernandez (Columbia) on the politics of administrative burden (see below),
Afternoon bike ride
September 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Afternoon bike ride
Back to archival work. It means opening one box after another, flipping through every page to absorb the context and uncover fragments of evidence and narrative. Of course, there’s plenty of photo-taking. It’s labor-intensive, but I really missed it.
September 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Back to archival work. It means opening one box after another, flipping through every page to absorb the context and uncover fragments of evidence and narrative. Of course, there’s plenty of photo-taking. It’s labor-intensive, but I really missed it.
Long weekend reading in Napa. I also look forward to attending Eddie Ahn's book talk this week in San Francisco.
September 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Long weekend reading in Napa. I also look forward to attending Eddie Ahn's book talk this week in San Francisco.
Back to studying the War on Poverty literature
August 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Back to studying the War on Poverty literature
New books arrived!
August 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
New books arrived!
I am so excited to dig into this book!
August 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I am so excited to dig into this book!
My fall schedule is almost confirmed, and I look forward to catching up with old friends and making new connections at UNC (this week), UBC (September), APSA (September), JHU SAIS (October), NYU (October), GovAI Coalition (November), and APPAM (November).
August 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My fall schedule is almost confirmed, and I look forward to catching up with old friends and making new connections at UNC (this week), UBC (September), APSA (September), JHU SAIS (October), NYU (October), GovAI Coalition (November), and APPAM (November).