Kimberly Hanson | Global Health Corps

Kimberly Hanson

Kimberly

Co-fellow

Bryan

Bryan Tumusiime

Placement Country: Uganda
Title: Fundraising/Resource Mobilization Officer
Every day I am motivated by social injustice - both by the desire to educate the people who discriminate against others and by the "underdogs" who are resilient in their activism no matter what.

Kim is from Rhode Island. From 2011-2012, Kim served as the inaugural director of a youth social entrepreneurship program at Social Enterprise Greenhouse. Since then, she has provided communications support to the child health team at Maternal & Child Health Integrated Program, USAID and developed global activism resources for teenagers at Plan International. In 2013, Kim was a New Leaders Council Institute Fellow and currently sits on the board of Deeper Missions, which implements environmentally sustainable infrastructure projects in West Africa. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in international development from Clark University, where she focused on how to enact positive social impact in unconventional ways and spent time abroad in Namibia. Kim’s hobbies include theatre and filmmaking.