Kim Grose Moore is the Executive Director of GRIP Training Institute, where she leads efforts to advance healing, accountability, and restorative justice through transformative programming inside and beyond California prisons.

For more than 20 years, Kim has worked to build a more just and equitable Bay Area through community organizing, nonprofit leadership, and organizational development. She co-founded Partners in School Innovation and spent 15 years with the PICO National Network (now Faith in Action), serving as a faith-based community organizer and Executive Director of the San Francisco Organizing Project. Throughout her career, she has partnered with faith and community leaders to advance affordable housing, healthcare, immigration, violence prevention, and criminal justice reform.

Grounded in the belief that lasting social change begins with personal transformation, Kim is a Buddhist chaplain in the Theravada tradition and has been a longtime GRIP facilitator. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Based in San Jose, California, she is inspired by her spiritual practice, her community, and her family.