Kimberly Zieselman is an intersex woman, lawyer, human rights advocate, and media production consultant with more than 25 years of experience. Currently, she is the Senior Advisor on Global Intersex Rights at OutRight International. 

She served as Senior Advisor to U.S. Special Envoy for the Advancement of Human Rights for LGBTQI+ Persons at the State Department, Executive Director of the premier intersex policy organization in the U.S., InterACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, and board member of InterConnect support group.

Kimberly is a leader in the field of intersex human rights and participated as an expert consultant to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva in 2015 and was an official signatory to the historic Yogyakarta Principles +10 in 2017.

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 for the show Faking It on MTV. 

Kimberly regularly consults and speaks on intersex policy, representation, and inclusion in legal, health care, and corporate settings as well as entertainment media, and has been published and quoted in numerous outlets, including the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, CNN, Washington Blade, Advocate, Stat News, and Vogue.

In 2020, Kimberly published XOXY, an award-winning memoir about her personal and professional intersex journey. She is also the Executive Producer of the internationally acclaimed short narrative film Common As Red Hair.