Anne Kim writes about education, workforce and social policy. She is a contributing editor at Washington Monthly magazine and 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 the Progressive Policy Institute, Third Way and other District of Columbia think tanks and of Capitol Hill, her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Atlantic and numerous other national publications. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a law degree from Duke University.