Kimberly
Smith

Southern Appalachian Community Conservation Specialist
North Carolina headquarters

71 Broadway, Suite 203 
Asheville, NC 28801 
828-505-7977

Kim Smith

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Kimberly Smith is the Southern Appalachian Community Conservation Specialist at The Wilderness Society.

Kim leads and manages our community-based efforts across the Southern Appalachian region, working closely with partners to help build community-led conservation initiatives.

Kim is from her Ancestral homelands of Cherokee, NC, where she volunteers to revitalize culture and protect mother earth. She is the mother of 2 girls and in their spare time they travel to experience the world through the Indigenous’ perspective.

She holds a BA in French and World Business and an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation with foci in Marketing and Nonprofit Management from the University of Tennessee.