Elaine Yim specializes in political theory with interests in activism, democratic boundary problem, and ethnography. Her dissertation examines the role of activism in remedying our ‘global legitimacy deficit,’ the idea that our global governance structure in addressing global justice concerns including climate justice are unjust. Her project combines political theory with ethnographic methods, exploring the democratic values manifested in existing global justice activism movements. Outside of her dissertation work, she is also interested in immigration ethics, democratic theory and normative ethics.