Meet Kimberly King – SDMT’s DEI Consultant!

Posted June 24, 2021

We are thrilled to announce SDMT’s new Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant – Kimberly King.

Ms. King is a San Diego native, and 25 year veteran elementary school teacher with the South Bay Union School District’s Visual and Performing Arts Program. Ms. King is proud to serve in the San Diego theatre community on the San Diego Junior Theatre Board of Trustees as Education Chair, and at the Old Globe Theatre as a Teaching Artist, a 4-time dramaturge for the San Diego Repertory Theatre and Co-Curator for their Black Voices Reading Series, 2021.

Ms. King performed musically in the mid-1980’s, but more recently has been seen in Our Lady of Kibeho, at the Moxie, and in the Coronado Playhouse production of James and the Giant Peach in the role of “Ladahlord”.

Kimberly holds degrees in Music, Sociology, and Contemporary Black Arts from UCSD, and a Master’s in Theatre Arts from SDSU- go Aztecs!

She is the proud parent of three wonderful artists, Zack, Lily and Imahni. She runs Teenage Youth Performing Arts Theatre Company (TYPA) with Imahni. Currently, Kimberly, her children, and her brother have just embarked upon a new project: The Herman and Bleachie King Center for Black Arts and Culture, in honor of the grandparents who left them a building in Southcrest San Diego.

Ms. King has deep roots in San Diego and values the opportunity to be a part of the improvement of her hometown in any and all ways possible.

As SDMT’s DEI Consultant, she will guide the continued education and implementation of Anti-Racist and Anti-Bias strategies to uncover and work to correct any inequalities that exist within the organizational structure now or in the future. San Diego Musical Theatre and their entire organization are thrilled to be taking the next steps toward active allyship by having Ms. King join our team to continue our growth, introspection and evolution.

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