Helping Today. Changing Lives Tomorrow.
Kimberly Harris is a thought leader and change-maker. Throughout her career, she champions innovation and helps stakeholders in the government, private, and nonprofit sectors develop and implement necessary reforms so that women and children can thrive and interrupt poverty, violence, and intergenerational trauma.
Ms. Harris’ experience with nonprofit operations, management, and oversight spans more than twenty years in Washington, D. C. She is an active member of the Client Leadership Council for the Feeding America/Capital Area Food Bank partnership and currently serves as Co-Chair for the D. C. Department of Human Services’ Family Rehousing & Stabilization (FRSP) Task Force. Ms. Harris previously served as a Director for Dress for Success DC Professional Women’s Group. Ms. Harris previously served as an Ambassador for The United States of Women and remains active with the organization.
In 2000, Ms. Harris sounded the alarm about environmental justice. As a guest speaker during a White House News Briefing in December 2000, she spoke forcefully about how Improving Air Quality impacts children in low-poverty communities in America, along with then Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Carol Browner, and President Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff, John Podesta.
In 2021, Ms. Harris addressed a press conference at the invitation of US House Representative and Chairman of the US House Rules Committee, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA). Ms. Harris spoke alongside McGovern, Senator Cory Booker, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, food activist Tom Colicchio in support of the bicameral legislation they introduced to President Joe Biden to convene a White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health for only the second time in US history.
In 2022, Ms. Harris attended The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health at the invitation of President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, in which she advocated for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors in need of greater access to expanded emergency federal resources once experiencing hunger and homelessness due to fleeing their abusers.
Her approach also recognizes the need for a whole-of-society reckoning with immigration practices that continue to allow harm. She has traveled to El Paso Texas to help serve in the community of Hispanic and Latino immigrants and has studied the impacts immigration has on Hispanic women and children.
Ms. Harris vows to continue her work in helping other women bridge their “From Trauma to Triumph” at Women’s HQ where a culturally-specific and holistic approach is combined with evidence-based modalities. Through the programming, primarily Black and Brown women in Washington, D. C. will participate in survivor-centered wellness, career enhancement, and financial literacy programming.