Kim is the Director of Programs at the Innovation Institute for Food and Health at UC Davis where she works to ensure research gets to market to have human health impact. Kim also serves as Chair of Research on the board of Breakthrough T1D in Northern California. She is also a Chief Impact Officer at Start Up Health. Prior to this, she ran several business incubators, founded and sold her own technology company, and did a three-year stint in Lithuania with the Agency for International Development. Kim has a BS from Wharton and an MBA from UC Berkeley.