Hoang Pham is the Associate Director and Manager of Education Design at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice at Stanford Law School, where he directs and leads research and policy in Education Design—a focus area aimed at understanding and developing law and policy-based solutions to address entrenched racial inequities in the U.S. education system. 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 educator, Hoang spent six years working as an elementary school teacher in South Los Angeles and four years serving as an education consultant at the Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning, where he trained educators across the country. He previously clerked at the National Center for Youth Law and Public Advocates, and supported education civil rights litigation and numerous efforts to advance juvenile justice and education policy in the California State Legislature. He is a member of the California School Discipline Project interdisciplinary research team and continues to study the impact of exclusionary discipline policies and reforms in low-income schools serving predominantly Black, Indigenous, and Latinx students. He has written on race, education policy and practice, constitutional standards for police use of force, 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. Hoang 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.