Kimberly is an internationally recognized intersex human rights movement leader, advocate, author, media consultant, and nonprofit executive with more than thirty years of experience advancing social justice, public policy, and organizational leadership. 

Currently, she is the Senior Advisor on Global Intersex Rights at Outright International and a 2026-2027 Harvard Kennedy School Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights Global LGBTQI+ Fellow. Kimberly also serves as Global Advisor to the Astraea Intersex Human Rights Fund.   

She served in the Biden-Harris Administration as Senior Advisor to U.S. Special Envoy for the Advancement of Human Rights for LGBTQI+ Persons, becoming the first openly intersex person appointed to serve in the U.S. federal government. Previously, Kimberly was Executive Director of the premier intersex policy organization in the U.S., InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth
and a board member of the InterConnect support group.

For over a decade, she has helped shape international intersex human rights advocacy through leadership at the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and other intergovernmental bodies. Kimberly regularly consults and speaks on intersex policy, representation, and inclusion in legal, healthcare, and corporate settings as well as entertainment media, and has been published and quoted in numerous outlets.  

She guided internationally renowned fashion model Hanne Gaby Odiele on her historic coming out as intersex and consulted on the development and storyline of the first-ever recurring intersex character on television. Kimberly executive-produced the internationally acclaimed short narrative film Common As Red Hair and is a consulting producer on the feature-length documentary film The Secret of Me. 

Kimberly published XOXY, an award-winning memoir about her personal and professional intersex journey, and is curating and editing the first anthology of global intersex activist stories, Defending Bodies, to be published in 2027.