Welcoming Amanda Kim as Our New Executive Director

We are very pleased to announce that Amanda Kim has been selected as our new Executive Director to lead our organization and our new strategy. Amanda has a long personal and family history in agriculture. She grew up on a tenant farm and her family has been involved in California agriculture since the 1890s.

Amanda has 20+ years of experience in service design, implementation, and evaluation in the health, housing, and human services fields. She comes to us with a long and substantial background in equity projects: expanding health access to under-estimated communities, leveraging public dollars so that people of color can enjoy open space equally, creating user-designed services in the areas of literacy, foster care, and behavioral health. She also served as the executive director of a landlord and tenant service collaborative, with a membership of 27 nonprofit, for-profit, and public agencies.

Amanda has a MPA in Urban Administration (SFSU), which focuses on multisector solutions and a certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Cornell University).

She is active in the community and serves on the board of Voice of Witness, and volunteers for Justice for Siskiyou and the Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee. In her free time, she can be found cooking up a new dish, learning about the natural world, and hiking with her one-eyed dog.

Please feel free to reach out to her with congratulations, questions, hiking tips and more. She started February 2022.

Welcome Amanda, we’re delighted that you could join us!

Amanda and a dog in front of a wellhouse.