Kimberly Burge Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Specialize in faith-based, development, and community organizing groups and publicationsClients include Children's Hospital Foundation; Faith in Public Life; Bread for the World and Bread for the World Institute; Sojourners magazine; Metro Lutheran newspaper (Minneapolis/St. Paul); V.O.I.C.E. (Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement); PICO.

• Write a range of articles including feature stories, music and book reviews, and editorials

School Of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Reported from South Africa on the lack of leadership from the country's religious bodies and faith communities to combat violence against women. Published articles have appeared to date in The Atlantic (online) and for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

As a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing to South Africa, I founded a creative writing club for teen-aged girls in Gugulethu township, outside Cape Town. I have written a book of narrative nonfiction about these girls who are coming of age as the first post-apartheid generation. THE BORN FREES: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu will be published by W..

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Editorial team leader, producing educational and advocacy materials for 80,000 member grassroots organization.
• Developed editorial content to enliven organization’s identity in written materials
• Edited and wrote grassroots newsletter published 10 times per year
• Edited yearly 36-page campaign handbook for grassroots hunger activists
• Traveled on field work in Africa, Central America, and the United States for original reportage
• Increased the number of feature stories included in publications

• Edited external writing projects for editor-in-chief, including editorials (for publications such as the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times) and book proposals
• Assisted with media campaign, planning, coordination, promotion and management of national conferences, national book and town meeting tours, and roundtable discussions of religious leaders
• Conducted research for internal and external writing projects
• Reviewed manuscripts for potential endorsements by editor-in-chief
• Represented Sojourners at conferences and town meetings

Master Of Fine Arts In Creative Writing, Nonfiction Writing

Bachelor Of Science In Journalism, Minor: Sociology

Study Abroad