Jane Kim is currently the President of the San Francisco Board of Education and a civil rights attorney at Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. In her campaign for Board of Education, Jane was the highest citywide vote-getter, becoming the first Korean-American elected official in San Francisco.
On January 13, 2010, her colleagues on the school board unanimously elected her to serve as President of that body. Prior to serving on the Board of Education, Jane was a fellow at The Greenlining Institute, where she developed economic development policies and advocated for increased consumer protections for communities of color.
In 2005, Kim was elected to serve as President of the San Francisco People’s Organization, an advocacy coalition that included over forty community organizations and labor unions working together to map a progressive agenda for San Francisco through legislating and organizing.
Jane received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University, where she studied Political Science and Asian American Studies. She went on to receive her law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).