Kimberly is the Assistant Vice President of Corporate Philanthropy for the ASU Foundation for a New American University where she oversees all corporate engagement and relations pertaining to philanthropic efforts. ASUF exists to advance the charter of Arizona State University locally, nationally, and globally and is a nonprofit subsidiary of ASU Enterprise Partners.
Prior to ASUF, she served as the Vice President of Innovation and Entrepreneur Programs for the largest Better Business Bureau in North America where she founded ignite sparked by BBB, the first-of-its-kind nonprofit coworking spaces with locations in Phoenix, San Diego, and Salt Lake City. She built and managed a team of 13 high-performing nonprofit professionals and led fundraising efforts for all innovation programming.
Kimberly has also worked in partner management for Arizona State University's entrepreneurship + innovation unit, Feeding America, and St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance. She has served on the Young Nonprofit Professional Network Phoenix Board of Directors, the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Valley Young Professionals Board of Directors, the Women's Business Center Advisory Board, and on many other ad hoc boards and committees in service to her community. She is also passionate about volunteering for local and national nonprofit organizations.
She is a seasoned executive, futuristic leader, innovative thinker, and experienced director of both people and programs. She has a proven track record of creating, piloting, fundraising, and scaling successful programs, business models, and coworking spaces that are impactful and generate both excitement and revenue. Kimberly's career has been at the crossroads of corporate social responsibility, nonprofit innovation, entrepreneurship education, impact-driven philanthropy, and higher education.