Dr. Kimberly B. George is a writer, teacher, and scholar of gender, race, and religion. She researches and consults on writing practices; somatic experience and coming to voice; and feminist histories of social change.  Her leadership programs support clergy, teachers, and therapists in applying a feminist, decolonial, and critical race understanding to their fields. Dr. George has had a longtime focus on teaching writing as a contemplative practice in service of deep learning, identity formation, and social justice.

She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Ethnic Studies from UCSD, with coursework completed toward a second Ph.D. in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at UBC. Prior, she was a Merit Scholar at Yale Divinity School, earning an M.A. in religious history, then serving as a postgraduate fellow at Yale in gender equity. Before her academic path, she trained as a psychodynamic therapist, an experience which shapes her holistic pedagogies of change that connect the personal and the historical.
 
She had the privilege of being taught literature and academic and creative writing by award-winning writers, including Elizabeth Alexander (President Obama’s inaugural poet), Lauren Winner (bestselling writer and professor at Duke Divinity School), Shelley Streeby (former Director of Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Workshop and premier researcher of Octavia Butler and Ursula LeGuin’s archives), and Sabrina Orah Mark (poet and essayist, innovator of the fairy tale form).
 
Dr. George is published in academic, religious, and popular publications and is the co-editor of Football, Culture, and Power. She is currently writing three books: Writing as Sanctuary (based in multi-racial feminist lineages of writing practice); Mindful Feminism: How Men Can Choose Radical Love and Reimagine Our World; and an untitled book of speculative feminist fiction.