Biography
Heewon Kim is a scholar-activist committed to producing research that envisions and enacts alternative ways of organizing to advance liberation, dignity, and radical equality. Grounded in anticolonial, intersectional, and feminist scholarship, she advances scholarly and pedagogical missions to build a just and equitable world for all beings. Her organizational research centers on power/knowledge, (in)justice, and violence, with the aim of fostering voice and resistance among marginalized and minoritized groups. Her current projects examine state and legal violence against social activists, unions, migrant workers, and survivors of sexual violence, with attention to the novel forms of violence that emerge in neoliberal societies. In parallel, her health research addresses the uneven distributions of life chances, care labor, and health resources, particularly among marginalized populations in Asia and the Global South. Collectively, her work underscores a sustained emphasis on organizational justice, health justice, and antiviolence. She is an associate professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. She also actively publishes in her mother tongue, under her Korean name, 김정희원.