Alex Kim Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

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Alex Kim Jeopardy Contestant Profile

Alex Kim is a clinical social worker based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, whose career combines psychotherapy, behavioral health, higher education and social-work training. He appears on Jeopardy! as a contestant from Holyoke and is professionally identified as a clinical social worker. Kim is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and has worked across private practice, community health, public schools, college mental-health services and family outreach organizations.

Kim currently maintains a private clinical practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. His clinical interests are particularly focused on trauma, including racial trauma, intergenerational trauma and moral injury. He is also interested in the psychological and social effects of games and video games, as well as ways of integrating spirituality and mental health into clinical practice. Rather than approaching gaming only as a potential problem behavior, Kim has explored how games can provide psychological, social and developmental benefits alongside potential risks.

He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Smith College School for Social Work, where he has taught since 2020. His teaching has included group theory, first-year social-work practice and practicum seminars. Kim has additionally been involved in professional training and supervision, including managing a training program for graduate students preparing for mental-health professions and supervising second-year Smith School for Social Work students.

Kim earned his Master of Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work in 2012. While studying at Smith from 2010 to 2012, he participated in the Council for Students of Color and the LGBTQ Alliance. He was selected as the M.S.W. class speaker for his graduating class. In his commencement remarks, Kim discussed the contradictions inherent in social work and argued that engaging constructively with those tensions can lead to creative and meaningful professional practice.

During his social-work education, Kim also completed a policy internship with the Prison Policy Initiative. In that role, he worked on outreach to rural county and municipal officials concerning solutions to prison-based gerrymandering, giving him experience with policy advocacy alongside his later clinical work.

Earlier in his career, Kim worked in school-based social work. By 2016, he was a School Social Worker and counselor at Veritas Preparatory Charter School in Springfield, Massachusetts, working particularly with seventh- and eighth-grade students. That year he presented at a Massachusetts social-work symposium on “Growing Up Gaming: A Strengths-Based Approach to Videogames.” His presentation challenged the tendency to automatically pathologize video gaming and instead considered how clinicians could understand gaming through a strengths-based framework.

Kim has subsequently worked in community behavioral health, including with the Community Health Center of Franklin County, where he has been identified as a Supervising Behavioral Health Clinician. His professional record also identifies him as a clinical social worker associated with the organization’s Greenfield and Orange-area services. Across these roles, his work has moved from direct counseling and school social work into clinical supervision, professional education and graduate-level teaching. His background shows a consistent interest in areas that fall between conventional clinical categories. In addition to trauma treatment, Kim’s scholarly interests encompass racial and intergenerational experiences, moral injury, spirituality, games, digital culture and mental health. This combination of clinical practice and academic teaching gives him experience working both directly with clients and with future generations of social workers.

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