Community building

My version of policy entrepreneurship is closer to the role of a facilitator. I aspire to be someone who helps create space for collective learning and problem-solving.

Bridging Research and Practice

Collaborators, Project Partners, and Lab Affiliations

Collaborator Locations
Map of 59 collaborators at 37 institutions, linked to UNC Chapel Hill UC Berkeley (6): Alan Yan, Carlos Ortiz, Christian Caballero, Sarah Nam, Sarah Santiago, Vivek Datta Michigan (5): Donald Moynihan, Nari Yoo, Nicholas Camp, Pamela Herd, Tyler Simko Harvard (4): DG Kim, Liz McKenna, Paris Boo, Taeku Lee Georgetown (4): Eric Giannella, Sebastian Jilke, Tiago Ventura, Zhaowen Guo UCLA (3): Efrén Pérez, Kasheena Rogbeer, Michael Gaddis Syracuse (2): Baobao Zhang, Johannes Himmelreich Dartmouth (2): Cameron Guage, William Marx Johns Hopkins (2): Hahrie Han, Milan de Vries Code for America (2): Kerry Rodden, Nathaniel Olin Columbia (2): Sophie Jacobson, Tamar Mitts Oxford (1): Akshay Mangla Fordham Law (1): Aniket Kesari Monash University (1): Charles Crabtree Yonsei University (1): Daegon Cho Cambridge (1): Diane Coyle Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1): Devorah Manekin Aarhus University (1): Florian Keppeler KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) (1): Claire Taeyoon Kim University of Connecticut (1): Jaeung Sim Rochester (1): James Druckman US Government Accountability Office (1): Jaren Habers Ben-Gurion University (1): Jennifer Oser SUNY Binghamton (1): Jennifer Wu Wesleyan (1): Joan Cho Virginia (1): John Holbein Tel Aviv University (1): Lior Sheffer UIUC (1): Margaret Ng SUNY Albany (1): Mila Gascó-Hernandez Loyola Marymount University (1): Nathan Chan Northwestern (1): Reuel Rogers Indiana University (1): Sanghee Park Google (1): Sergio Camelo Pew Research (1): Sono Shah Meta (1): Taylor Brown UC Davis (1): Tina Law University of Southern California (1): Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani Santa Clara University (1): Vivien Leung UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Chapel Hill Collaborators' institutions (larger circle = more collaborators)
Applied Project Partners
Map of applied project partners across the United States California Department ofSocial Services City of San Jose,Communications Office Government AI Coalition(San José) Colorado Governor'sOffice of InformationTechnology Colorado Department ofHealth Care Policy andFinancing Boulder County Housingand Human Services New Mexico Human ServicesDepartment Massachusetts Departmentof Early Education andCare New York State Departmentof Health New York City Mayor'sOffice for EconomicOpportunity Health Resources inAction Innovate US Code for America U.S. Digital Response Hopelab Kapor Foundation Hispanics in Philanthropy Asian Americans AdvancingJustice–Atlanta Asian American AdvocacyFund Louisiana Public HealthInstitute Student Basic NeedsCoalition Office of EvaluationSciences Public Benefit InnovationFund Digital Harbor Foundation Students Learn StudentsVote Coalition Federation of AmericanScientists Office of Evaluation Sciences (Washington, DC; Federal government) Students Learn Students Vote Coalition (Washington, DC; Advocacy organizations) Federation of American Scientists (Washington, DC; Think tanks) Public Benefit Innovation Fund (Washington, DC; Philanthropy) California Department of Social Services (Sacramento, CA; State & local government) City of San Jose, Communications Office (San Jose, CA; State & local government) Government AI Coalition (San José) (San Jose, CA; State & local government) Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology (Denver, CO; State & local government) Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (Denver, CO; State & local government) Boulder County Housing and Human Services (Boulder, CO; State & local government) Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (Boston, MA; State & local government) Health Resources in Action (Boston, MA; Nonprofits) Innovate US (Boston, MA; Nonprofits) New Mexico Human Services Department (Santa Fe, NM; State & local government) New York State Department of Health (Albany, NY; State & local government) New York City Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity (New York, NY; State & local government) Code for America (San Francisco, CA; Civic tech) Hopelab (San Francisco, CA; Philanthropy) U.S. Digital Response (Oakland, CA; Civic tech) Kapor Foundation (Oakland, CA; Philanthropy) Hispanics in Philanthropy (Oakland, CA; Philanthropy) Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta (Atlanta, GA; Advocacy organizations) Asian American Advocacy Fund (Atlanta, GA; Advocacy organizations) Louisiana Public Health Institute (New Orleans, LA; Nonprofits) Student Basic Needs Coalition (Knoxville, TN; Nonprofits) Digital Harbor Foundation (Baltimore, MD; Philanthropy)
Federal governmentState & local governmentCivic techNonprofitsPhilanthropyAdvocacy organizationsThink tanks
Applied project partners map (updated September 15, 2026).

I maintain an active network of collaborators and project partner organizations, and work closely with several research labs across institutions:

Field-Building in Computational Social Science

Community Engagement & Mentorship

Civic tech pre-conference at the 2024 PMRC, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington. Photo credit: Donald Moynihan (2024)
Civic tech pre-conference at the 2024 PMRC, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington. Photo credit: Donald Moynihan (2024)
Source Code: Building an AI Trust and Fairness Policy Agenda Hill Briefing. Photo credit: Federation of American Scientists (2026)
Source Code: Building an AI Trust and Fairness Policy Agenda Hill Briefing. Photo credit: Federation of American Scientists (2026)
“Government AI Procurement is a Problem” (Jae Yeon Kim and Aniket Kesari), AI Skeptics Podcast, hosted by Cathy O’Neil and Jake Appel, September 27, 2026
“How Can AI Serve All People in Korea and the U.S.?” Sherman Family Emerging Scholar Lecture, The Korea Society (2026)