Kim Harris

Kim Harris has almost 15 years' experience in fundraising and development work and currently serves as the Director of Development for the College of Fine Arts, University of Kentucky. She received her BA in English from The College of Wooster in 1997 and started her career at the United Way of Wayne & Holmes Counties in Wooster, Ohio, serving in three different roles and ultimately as the Associate Director. She grew increasingly more interested in the important work on fundraising in higher education and to transition she served for a year at her alma mater, The College of Wooster, working for the Dean of Faculty's office managing their special programs. Kim moved to Lexington, Kentucky in the winter of 2007 to begin that development work in higher education after being hired as the Director of Development for the University of Kentucky's College of Dentistry serving for three years before joining the College of Fine Arts at UK. She and Dean Tick have worked hard over the last three + years to build a development program from the ground up, unifying the units and departments within CFA and working internally and externally to demonstrate the power behind coordinated and strategic cultivation leading to significant philanthropic investments in the College. She has served on the Boards for Big Brothers/Big Sisters in Ohio, the Lexington Ballet in Lexington, Kentucky, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Chrysalis House in Lexington, Kentucky.