As Chief Resilience Officer, Kim leads Rhode Island’s climate resilience planning and implementation initiatives, leveraging funding opportunities and exploring policy solutions to advance resilience statewide in collaboration with government leadership, state agencies, partner organizations, and municipalities. Her role also works in partnership with Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (RIIB) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to collaboratively manage Rhode Island’s Municipal Resilience Program. Prior to joining RIDEM, Kim worked at RIIB, managing the first iteration of the Municipal Resilience Program, the Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Grant (OSG), other resilience and stormwater funding initiatives. She also completed work as a Fellow with the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, working on their Shoreline, Adaptation, Inventory, and Design initiative, and has completed aquatic invasive species work with New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation. Kim holds a Master of Landscape Architecture, specializing in Ecological Design, from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and a B.A. from Boston University