Hanseul Kang is assistant dean and the inaugural Anita and Joshua Bekenstein ’80 B.A. executive director of The Broad Center at the Yale School of Management. The Broad Center at Yale SOM fosters the ideas, policies, and leadership to help all K-12 students—particularly those from historically underserved communities—to learn and thrive.
Most recently, Hanseul served as the District of Columbia State Superintendent of Education from 2015 to 2020. She provided strategic vision, clear direction, and steady leadership to D.C.’s state education agency, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), which serves over 90,000 students in public schools across more than 60 local education agencies. Under Hanseul’s leadership, the District of Columbia continued to make major strides in student achievement outcomes as OSSE took important steps to sustain, accelerate, and deepen progress for all students.
Hanseul previously served as chief of staff for the Tennessee Department of Education from 2011 to 2015, and started her career as a high school social studies teacher in rural New Mexico. Hanseul holds a BS in international politics from Georgetown University and a JD from Harvard Law School. She was a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar, and is a Pahara Fellow and an alum of The Broad Residency (TBR 2012-14).
