When Kim discovered Peace on Purpose it felt like the convergence of everything she had done up to that point in her life, as though she was answering her clarion call.   

Kim started her career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine and went on to work with the United Nations in New York City and Kabul, Afghanistan. From this experience Kim recognized that something was being neglected in the care for humanitarian workers, and wanted to seek out more tools to resource herself and others. She completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training, began exploring how trauma affects the nervous system, and became a lifelong student of Vipassana meditation.   

Fueled by the energy of start-up organizations and her work in the yoga community, Kim created a scalable model for a nonprofit yoga and mindfulness program, adapted for individuals with traumatic brain injuries and their caregivers. Over the course of five years, she successfully integrated the program across thirty-eight US states and six Canadian provinces. During this time, she presented the benefits of yoga and mindfulness to over 75 top-tier hospitals and neuro-rehab centers across North America. In 2019, her work with the brain injury community was recognized by the State of California and she was invited to become a member of the California Brain Injury Advisory Board, along with twelve other experts in the field. 

Through patience, perseverance, self-inquiry and a deep reverence for process, Kim has assembled a team at Peace on Purpose that thrives on trust and centers individual wellbeing as a means to collective well-being. Just as mindfulness teaches us to be aware of what is arising moment to moment, Kim believes in creating spaciousness for the process in what Peace on Purpose does to unfold emergently so that the work is truly relevant and disruptive.   

Kim holds a Master of Public Administration in International Nonprofit Management from New York University.       

She believes in creating rituals around habits, beauty in asymmetry, mise-en-place (in and out of the kitchen), and the power of getting quiet to live loud. Kim is equally at her happiest exploring the hardest-to-reach corners of our beautiful planet as she is snuggling with her dog, Van, in their home in Southern California.