Désirée Lim is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Penn State's Department of Philosophy, and Research Associate at the Rock Ethics Institute. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's McCoy Center for Ethics in Society. She completed her doctorate at King's College London in 2016. Her primary interests lie in contemporary political philosophy and applied ethics, with a special focus on immigration and global justice, as well as feminist philosophy and the philosophy of race.