Kim Grose Moore has contributed for more than 20 years to making the San Francisco Bay Area a more just and equitable community. Early in her career she was the Co-Founder/Co-Director of Partners in School Innovation. For 15 years she worked in various capacities with the PICO National Network (now Faith in Action), as a faith-based community organizer, and then the Executive Director of the San Francisco Organizing Project, she then provided executive leadership coaching, board and staff training, and strategic organizational consulting to grassroots community organizing efforts across the Bay Area. She organized with faith and community leaders on campaigns to win resources and policy changes in such areas as affordable housing, healthcare, immigration, violence prevention and criminal justice reform. 

A strong believer in the community organizing principle, “the first revolution is internal,” Kim works to connect the inner and outer work towards liberation.  After years of personal meditation practice, she trained as a Buddhist chaplain and is a candidate for ordination in the Theravada tradition. She was a facilitator for GRIP before she began working as a strategic growth consultant to GRIP Training Institute in 2017. Kim has a BA degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree in social anthropology from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She deeply believes that people are naturally creative and resourceful, and want to be free. Based in San Jose, California, she is inspired and motivated to act through spiritual practice, her community, and her beloved family.