Kim grew up living in subsidized housing, receiving public assistance, and participating in the free and reduced lunch program at school. After being the first in her family to graduate college, Hamline University, with a BA in Political Science, minor’s in Women’s Studies, and a BBA degree, she started working at Property Solutions and Services in 2013 as an Assistant Site Manager. She worked her way up to Associate Site Manager. She left in 2016 to try real estate and leasing in market rate housing. She went back into affordable housing as a Compliance Specialist with the focus on Section 202 and Section 811 for over 350 units. She then took an opportunity at MN Housing as a Compliance Officer in 2018. There she monitored over 160 properties to ensure they were in compliance with multiple funding programs such as Tax Credits, HOME, MARIF, ARIF, POHP, PARIF, and LTH. In 2020, she came back to PSS as a Human Resources Manager/Site Manager where she was able to be as versatile as she wanted to be in all areas of affordable housing.  As of 2025, she has fully immersed herself to grow in Human Resources.

Kim graduated from St. Mary’s University with an MBA degree in December 2021 and a SHRM-certification in May 2022. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, eating at new restaurants, traveling, participating in book clubs, and playing volleyball and Dungeons and Dragons.