Hoang Pham is the Director of Education and Opportunity at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice at Stanford Law School, where he leads research and policy initiatives to address entrenched racial inequities in the U.S. education system and promote economic mobility. He also oversees the Center’s programming activities and engagement with key stakeholders on and off campus, and directly supervises all students, research associates, and law and policy fellows.

A former two-time national award-winning educator, Hoang spent six years teaching elementary school in South Los Angeles and four years serving as an education consultant at the Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning, where he trained teachers and school leaders across the country. He previously clerked at the National Center for Youth Law and Public Advocates, supporting education civil rights litigation and numerous efforts to advance juvenile justice and education policy in the California State Legislature. He has conducted qualitative research as a member of the California School Discipline Project and the Walk Out! Lab For Youth Justice, and is a co-recipient of the American Educational Research Association Division L Outstanding Policy Report Award for his contributions to Beyond Suspension Decline: Transforming School Discipline in California. He has written on race, education law, policy and practice, criminal justice and policing, and critical pedagogy in legal education.

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 admitted to practice law in the state of California.

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