Harnessing a keen desire to tackle some of the toughest water challenges facing her rural hometown in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Kim became a civil engineer. Inspired by engineers pushing the boundaries of water reuse and emerging contaminants, she is also drawn to the shifts happening in water policy and governance. In her advisory services role with us, she keeps tabs on constantly evolving policy changes and funding flows to help utilities fund their priority water and wastewater projects. In recent years, she has focused on post-disaster funding and recovery.
Within our North American Funding Program, Kim leads our funding team for her home state of California as well as the Pacific Northwest and Hawaiʻi on water infrastructure, disaster recovery, and governance related efforts. Earning her doctorate while working on a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project in Eastern Africa, she investigated how governance and collaboration impacted water utilities’ technical, managerial, and financial capacity. This earned her recognition as a professional New Face in Civil Engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2021.
If you ask Kim, she’ll say her perfect day is when she’s surrounded by big mountains for 12 hours. She’s a mountaineer, climber, and runner.
