Kim Bobo is an experienced nonprofit director and a nationally recognized advocate for social justice.  Bringing more than four decades of executive leadership, Kim is committed to sharing her experience and wisdom with nonprofit social justice organizations and continuing to learn from creative nonprofits and both seasoned and emerging leaders.

Kim has provided leadership and service to many social justice organizations, including:

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP). Kim served as its executive director for nine years, from 2016 to 2025, helping it win many public policy victories. Some victories were coalitional ones, such as Medicaid expansion and raising the minimum wage. Others were led by VICPP such as six wage theft reforms, child labor reforms, paid sick days for 30,000 homecare workers, abolition of the death penalty, and reducing the use of solitary confinement. All policy work was done in a bi-partisan fashion. During Kim’s tenure, she increased the budget from $150K to $1.7 million, paid off the building’s mortgage, built a fabulous and diverse board and staff, and strengthened all the organization’s internal management and financial systems. 

Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ).  Kim was the founding director, from 1996 to 2015, building the organization from a vision in her head to a national network with more than 50 affiliates around the country. She built a strong national board, rebuilt ties between the faith community and labor movement and helped put the issue of wage theft on the national agenda through her book, Wage Theft in America, and hundreds of media interviews and presentations on the issue.

Midwest Academy.  Kim was a trainer from 1987 to 1995. She helped lead the weeklong organizing sessions, led board retreats, helped organizations with strategic plans and developed organizing campaign strategies for campaigns. Kim helped write the first edition of Organizing for Social Change, the best-selling organizing manual in the country, and then managed the fifth edition update in 2025. 

Bread for the World.  From 1978 to 1987, Kim was an organizer and then director of organizing for Bread for the World, leading the grassroots strategy on dozens of national policy campaigns.  

Kim seeks to lead with kindness, honesty, courage, and righteous indignation for injustice. She loves working with boards and staff and building the confidence and collaboration of both. 

Based in Chicago, Kim is not only a member of the Interim Executive Solutions Network, she is also a member of the Chicago-based Intentional Interim Executive Services group. For fun, she sings in two choirs, reads murder mysteries and tries new recipes from the New York Times.

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