Kim Thompson

Kim Thompson joined CLAM as executive director in 2012 from California’s San Joaquin Valley, where she worked to build healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities. She lived in a Southeast Asian refugee neighborhood for years while directing a first-time program to educate refugee residents about their housing rights, and led organizing efforts for improved living conditions and affordable housing policy in the city of Fresno. She’s contributed to smart growth initiatives and advocated for cleaner Valley air quality in her role to engage physicians in public health efforts; and has taught university courses on environmental ethics, cultural anthropology, and developed a touring course of major San Joaquin Valley issues. She earned a Masters of Divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary, has graduate training in anthropology from UC Berkeley, and a certificate of Applied Anthropology from the Tamale Institute of Cross Cultural Studies, Ghana.