Hoang Pham

Bio

Hoang Pham is the Director of Education and Opportunity at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, where he leads research and policy initiatives to examine education inequality and economic mobility in an era of emerging technologies. His work has focused on collaborating with policymakers to elevate the voices of marginalized students in decision-making, analyzing higher education law and policy post-affirmative action, and examining AI bias and its implications for law and governance. His research interests include the potential of participatory governance and deliberative democracy to build less polarized and more just communities, the role of education systems in preparing students for an uncertain future of work, and the capacity of antidiscrimination law to address racial inequality in an increasingly colorblind, technology-driven society. He has written on race, education law and policy, policing and the criminal legal system, and critical pedagogy in legal education.

Before joining Stanford Law School, Hoang clerked at the National Center for Youth Law and Public Advocates, supporting K–12 and higher education civil rights litigation as well as juvenile justice and education policy reform in the California Legislature. An experienced qualitative researcher, he has studied the impact of school discipline legislation and marginalized student experiences with the California School Discipline Project and the Walk Out! Lab for Youth Justice. His co-authored report, Beyond Suspension Decline: Transforming School Discipline in California, received the 2024 American Educational Research Association Division L Outstanding Policy Report Award. In 2013, he was selected as an Urban Leaders Fellow and developed education policy for then-Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston. Hoang is a two-time national award-winning educator. He spent six years teaching in South Los Angeles at one of the first U.S. elementary schools to adopt adaptive learning technology and then four years training teachers and school leaders nationwide as an education consultant with the Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning.

Hoang received a B.S. from the University of Oregon in Political Science and Ethnic Studies, an M.A. in Urban Education from Loyola Marymount University, and a J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where he was a Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Interest Scholar. He is a member of the California Bar.

The rest of his waking hours are spent raising his two daughters with his wife, Brooklynn.

Education & Certifications

• J.D., University of California, Davis School of Law (2021)
• M.A., Loyola Marymount University, Urban Education, Education Policy and Administration (2013)
• B.S., University of Oregon, Political Science, Ethnic Studies, Business Administration (2011)