Moonhawk Kim

Moonhawk Kim is the manager of inquiry, evaluation, and research at San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). In close collaboration with the district's leadership, he drives the organizational learning and the strategic planning based on data and research. Prior to his current role, Moonhawk was the director of research practice partnerships and community engagement at UC Berkeley's School of Education, where he built up the infrastructure for practitioners at Oakland Unified School District and researchers and staff at UC Berkeley to engage in collaborative partnership projects to improve educational outcomes. Moonhawk initially entered the field of education at SFUSD, where he used social science to improve education for the nearly 50,000 children enrolled in the school district before transitioning to UC Berkeley.

Moonhawk also teaches data bootcamp, and data visualization, and introduction to R at the University of San Francisco. Before moving into the field of education, he was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and published widely in academic journals on the political economy of global trade. Moonhawk, a native Californian, earned his PhD from Stanford University and BA from University of California at Berkeley.

• Stanford University, MA, PhD, 2005
• UC Berkeley, BA in Economics and Political Science, 1999

• Manager of Inquiry, Evaluation, and Research, San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), 2023 - current
• Director of Research Practice Partnerships and Community Engagement, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, 2019 - 2023
• Supervisor of Analytics, San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), 2017 - 2019
• Educational Policy Analyst, San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), 2016 - 2017
• Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, 2007 - 2016

• "University’s Absorptive Capacity for Collaborative Research: Examining Challenges and Opportunities for Organizational Learning to Engage in Research with Community Partners" (2023) with Valerie B. Shapiro, Emily J. Ozer, Susan Stone, Brian Villa, Marieka Scotland, and Colleen Kohashi. Journal of Community Practice 31(3-4): 397-409.

• "Politics at the Boundary: Exploring Politics in Education Research-Practice Partnerships" (2023) with Kyo Yamashiro and Laura Wentworth. Educational Policy. 37(1): 3-30.

• "The Stanford-SFUSD Partnership: Development of Data-Sharing Structures and Processes" (2021) with Eric Bettinger, Norma Ming, Michelle Reininger, Jim Shen, and Laura Wentworth. In Shawn Cole, Iqbal Dhaliwal, Anja Sautmann, & Lars Vilhuber  (Eds.), Handbook on Using Administrative Data for Research and Evidence-based Policy (pp. 417-466).

• "Enduring Trade Disputes: Disguised Protectionism and Duration and Recurrence of International Trade Disputes" (2016) Review of International Organizations. Online First version published online July 3, 2015.

• "Alliances and the High Politics of International Trade" (2016) with Scott Wolford. Political Science Research and Methods. FirstView version published online on June 19, 2015. Replication data posted on Dataverse.

• "Lingua Mercatoria: Language and Foreign Direct Investment" (2015) with Amy Liu, Kim-Lee Tuxhorn, David Leblang and David Brown. International Studies Quarterly 59(2): 330--343.

• "Choosing Anarchy: Institutional Alternatives and the Global Order" (2014) with Scott Wolford. International Theory 6(1): 28--67.