Jae-In Kim, Ph.D.

Dr. Jae-In Kim is a teacher-scholar who brings a diversity science lens to psychological science. They integrate social, personality, and developmental psychology with critical frameworks (e.g., critical race theory, critical adoption studies) to advance a more diverse and inclusive psychology. Their research disrupts psychology’s White-Black binary approach to racism and highlights the agentic role of members of minoritized groups in engaging in collective action and thriving amid oppression. In the community, Dr. Kim works to empower transracially adopted individuals and to change how stakeholders in adoption - including adoptive parents and social workers - approach their own roles in adoption and the systems of oppression that support transnational and transracial adoption.