Kim Churches,  AAUW CEO, listens to learn what AAUW branch members all across the country think about AAUW’s  direction into the future.  She is preparing to lead AAUW into the future with knowledge, vim, vigor, and vitality! Listening is one of the most important skills a CEO can have to support communication throughout any organization and Kim has that 100+ percent. She is full of passion and energy for what we do and I anticipate an exciting future under her leadership.
Shirley Stowers, AAUW LMEC Member

 Kimberly Churches, AAUW CEO, comes to AAUW from the Brookings Institution, where she strategically guided the public policy organization, providing vision and problem-solving skills, expansive partnerships and external relations, and fundraising as the managing director. Before joining Brookings, Kimberly was an associate vice chancellor at the University of Denver, a director of development at the University of North Florida, and a division director at the American Heart Association. She has extensive experience working collaboratively on education (K–12 and higher education) as well as capacity building among grassroots groups and national and international nonprofits. Churches earned her BA at Florida State University in English Education and the Certified Fund Raising Executive affiliation in 2002.