Nathan Kim
Research Intern
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Nathan is a PhD student at the University of Michigan School of Information.
Nathan Kim studies the political economy of tech production, with special attention to race and historical analysis. He's interested in the relationship between Silicon Valley and the state, specifically the industry transition away from DARPA and Cold War projects after 1989 and the contemporary return to defense funding.
Nathan is also interested in understanding and uplifting progressive social movements through his work. He helped build Evictorbook, a tool to perform landlord research for tenant organizers, as a member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. With Dr. Alex Hanna, he is currently studying the diffusion of and responses to student protest movements in the United States and Canada. He is a member and developer of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, where he works on tools for landlord research and tenant organizing.
Photo: Petros Teka