Kim Yi Dionne

Kim Yi Dionne is an Associate Professor of Political Science and 2022-23 Mellon Dean’s Professor at UCR’s Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside. She studies health interventions, identity, public opinion, political behavior, and policy aimed at improving the human condition, with a focus on African countries. She is a contributing editor to The Monkey Cage, a blog on politics and political science at The Washington Post. She also founded and co-hosts Ufahamu Africa, a weekly podcast about life and politics on the continent. She is the author of Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa (Cambridge
University Press, 2018).