Kimberly Baker
Having started her career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, followed by working with the UN in New York City and Kabul, Afghanistan, Kim felt that something was being neglected in the care for humanitarian workers.
It was this recognition – that she wanted to seek out more tools to resource herself and others – that propelled her to complete a 200-hour yoga teacher training, embark on the exploration of how trauma affects the nervous system, and become a lifelong student of Vipassana meditation.
Fueled by the energy of start-ups and her work in the yoga community, Kim took on a role at a nonprofit where she created a scalable model for a yoga and mindfulness program adapted for individuals with traumatic brain injuries and their caregivers, and over the course of five years, successfully integrated the program across 38 US states and six Canadian provinces. During this time, she presented the benefits of yoga and mindfulness to over 75 top-tier hospitals and neuro-rehab centers across North America.
As the Senior Director of Peace on Purpose, Kim has assembled a team at Peace on Purpose that thrives on trust and centers individual wellbeing as a means to collective well-being. Just as mindfulness teaches us to be aware of what is arising moment to moment, Kim believes in creating spaciousness for the process in what Peace on Purpose does to unfold emergently so that the work is truly relevant and disruptive.
Kim holds a Master's in Public Administration in International Nonprofit Management from New York University.
