Kim spent her graduate school years as a teaching assistant at UC Irvine, emphasizing student-centered learning in her teaching, using various technology to bring students contributions into classroom design, and got engaged in educational development as a Writing Workshop Leader for the School of Social Sciences and a Pedagogical Fellow and Educational Development Scholar with Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation. For the POD Network, she was named a Donald H. Wulff Diversity Fellow for 2023. She is starting out as an Instructional Design Consultant at Indiana University Indianapolis, helping faculty create a more engaging, student-centered classrooms. Her research and teaching focus on learning communities and student-centered classrooms. She believes that evidence-based pedagogy is essential for creating a safe environment necessary for student learning, manifesting is extensive use of polling software to co-create classrooms and alternative communication methods to better approach students. She is committed to these causes for research and practice in her work.
Her own experiences as an international scholar binds her to the cause of supporting students struggling with visibility and voice in higher education. “Students cannot learn unless they feel safe,” is a quote by Lorgia Garcia Peña that she resonates deeply with.