Tia Kim is an associate vice president in the Research, Evaluation, and Analytics unit at JFF. She leads the Research, Evaluation, and Analytics team and strategy to create the use of research and evidence-based practices and evaluate the effectiveness of JFF’s work. 

Her skills and areas of expertise include: 

• Solution/product research and development 
• Program evaluation 
• Impact measurement  
• Market research  
• Fund development 

Before joining JFF, Kim was vice president of education, research, and impact at Committee for Children, where she led a research team that contributed to iterative research and development, impact measurement, and provided insights into organizational KPIs. 

Educational background:  

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, California 
• Master’s degree in psychology, California State University, Fullerton 
• Ph.D. in developmental psychology, University of California, Riverside