Anne Kim

Anne Kim writes about education, workforce, and social policy. She is a contributing editor at Washington Monthly magazine and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s FutureEd. She is the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (The New Press) and Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection (The New Press), winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. 

A veteran of multiple Washington, D.C.-based think tanks and of Capitol Hill, Kim's work has appeared in numerous national publications, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Politico. Prior to her career in public policy, she worked as a corporate transactions and securities lawyer in Washington, D.C. and New York, New York. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a law degree from Duke University.