Speakers

Bio to be posted soon!

Kim Desmond is currently the Chief Race and Equity Officer for the City of San Diego, leading the Department of Race and Equity for Mayor Todd Gloria. Prior to this appointment, Kim served as the Director and Interim Chief Equity Officer for Mayor Michael B. Hancock, overseeing the Mayor’s Office of Social Equity and Innovation within the City and County of Denver.

Kim has an extensive background operationalizing racial equity into local government programs, budget allocations, and policies through building equitable outcomes with a targeted focus on eliminating systemic racism.

Kim’s areas of experience include:

• Policy and Operations: Improving policy, service delivery and equitable distribution of resources to ensure that priorities of equity are integrated in key programs, practices, and budget decisions.

• Implementation: Coordinating and developing city-wide Race and Equity offices through normalizing racial equity tools and social justice practices across two large local government systems comprised of over 11,000 employees.  

• Learning and Development: Designing curriculum and facilitating training on racial equity and inclusion that contextualizes historic oppression, systemic racism, and implicit/explicit biases to guide departments on building equitable outcomes.
• Evaluation, Assessment and Process Improvement: Creating infrastructure and systems to evaluate equitable outcomes and integrate Racial Equity Tools.

Bio coming soon!