Kelly Kimball is a Webby- and Shorty Impact Award-winning independent reporter, editor, photographer, public speaker, and podcaster based in New York City, by way of Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in human rights, politics, and the underreported ripple effects of global flashpoints.
Her reporting has been cited by Refugees International, the Afghanistan consortium led by the Norwegian Refugee Council, the National Student Nurses’ Association House of Delegates, and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security. Through this work, she has been invited to deliver remarks on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly; join a panel alongside fellow women newsroom leaders at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism; discuss audience growth and cross-border collaboration at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and lecture at Yale University through the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.
She is also the former Managing Editor of More to Her Story, where she led the publication’s coverage of women and girls during a period of historic growth and international industry recognition. Under her editorial leadership, the outlet reached 1–3 million monthly readers, peaked at an average of 4 million readers globally, and expanded its journalism across five continents with a network of more than 120 independent reporters worldwide in under a year.
Her reporting has also appeared in The 19th News, Foreign Policy, the Poynter Institute, The Xylom, the San Francisco Chronicle, Heatmap News, Long Lead’s Depth Perception newsletter, and other publications. Her photography is represented by ZUMA Press and Hans Lucas — work that has taken her to Mexico City, Veracruz, Tokyo, Anchorage, Paris, Budapest, and beyond.