"Kindness - to ourselves, each other and the environment".
Education and Expertise:
Kim holds a Bachelor of Technology in Environmental Management from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and currently hold the position Environmental Manager at a renewable energy development company. Kim was an environmental consultant for almost seven years before entering into the renewable energy sector.
Professional Registration:
Kim is a Registered Environmental Assessment Practitioner with the Environmental Assessment Practitioners Association of South Africa.
Affiliation:
Kim advocates for environmental awareness and education. She believes in, and encourages a mind shift from the normal day to day, to thinking about how to be more environmentally aware of the things we do, and our consumption. She enjoys engaging with different people from school children to organisations (religious, community, corporate). Kim has been invited as a guest speaker, and as a motivational speaker to different events. She is a youth and sustainability activist. She believes in and advocates for youth empowerment.
Accolades:
* Inside Education 100 South African Shining Star 2023: Environment Category.
* Recipient of the Mail & Guardian Greening the Future Environmental Heroes: Water and Oceans Award, 2023.
* Recipient of the Dear SA Young Leaders Award, 2nd Place in the category: Sport, Culture & Environment.
* Recipient of the Panche Woman Of Wonder Award, 2025