Saerim Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor at Suffolk University - Department of Public Service and Healthcare Administration, Sawyer Business School

Saerim Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Service and Healthcare Administration at the Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University-Boston. Her research and teaching focus on the fields of public budgeting and financial management, nonprofit finance and management, collaborative governance, and issues related to homelessness. Her current interest involves understanding how cross-sectoral collaboration affects the performance of public service provision with special attention to financial resource composition and equity. Her recent studies have been published in Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Cities, Urban Studies, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Journal of Public Affairs Education, and Korean Journal of Public Administration.  Her co-authored publication, “Linking Practice and Classroom: Nonprofit Financial Management Curricula in MPA and MPP programs,” was selected as the Journal of Public Affairs Education Outstanding Article in 2020. Her dissertation, entitled Three Essays on Financial Collaboration in the Government and Nonprofit Sectors, was selected for a doctoral fellowship by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) in 2017. She also received ARNOVA’s Emerging Scholar Award in 2016. 

She earned her Ph.D. from the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky and a Master's in Public Policy from Georgia State University.