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Kimberly Hart on THRIVING THROUGH CHANGE

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A Vision For Healthy Conflict, How Place, Stories, and Critical Thinking Create a Culture of Reconciliation

As one of the first in her extended family to attend college, Kimberly studied Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT before getting her JD from Columbia University School of Law. Passionate about the intersection of justice and mercy, Kimberly worked on lobbying and advocacy on human rights, peace-building, and humanitarian need for multiple international NGOs. From Sunday afternoon lunches with her great-grandmother and the belonging learned through extended family celebrations in rural western Pennsylvania, to the importance of hospitality experienced in her work overseas, Kimberly appreciates the need for a welcoming space, good food and drink, connecting stories, and thoughtful, challenging dialogue. Kimberly makes her home on 62 acres of a historic farm in central Maryland in an old house with wonderfully wavy glass windowpanes. She lives with her gentleman farmer husband, four strong-willed, strong-minded, and creative kids, one co-dependent rescue dog who thinks she’s much smaller than she is, one very cat-like adopted cat, two fainting goats who were supposed to be livestock-not-pets, plus her mother and her outlaw barn cat. Fairlight Farm is also the host to the Fairlight Forum, dedicated to creating space to hear and be heard.