ABOUT KIM JONES, THE FUTURE COLLECTIVE FOUNDER

Kim grew up in Sonoma Valley and has been working in its nonprofit sector since 2016. She is an internationally experienced professional with a dynamic background across nonprofit, art, and fashion industries.

She studied at Maastricht University and graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Psychology and a minor in the History of Art and Visual Culture, with an emphasis on Carl Jung's theory of archetypes and symbols.

She was an expat living in Sweden from 2008 to 2016 with dual US and Swedish citizenship, becoming the Marketing Director of the Swedish Academy of Realist Art and later the PR Manager for House of Dagmar, one of Sweden’s most influential fashion houses. She styled prominent women across Sweden’s film, fashion, music, art, and political industries. She has worked on fashion and lifestyle campaigns as a producer, stylist, PR consultant, and model for brands including House of Dagmar, Reliquary, Andersson Bell, Apart of the Art, Diana Orving, A New Sweden, Koala Eco, and the Swedish Fashion Now Paris Edition at Institut suédois.

Since returning to Sonoma Valley in 2016, her work shifted to mission-driven communications, coalition building, and fundraising. She supports development and communications at Sonoma Ecology Center and was a founding staff member of Sonoma Valley Collaborative, facilitating diplomacy across key sectors within the community and connecting organizations and leaders to solve complex community problems. She has done PR consultation for AG/O in support of international human rights campaigns. She serves on multiple boards of directors as the Governance Chair of the Sebastiani Theatre Foundation, Development Committee member of Sonoma Valley Education Foundation, and is the emeritus Vice President of the Valley of the Moon Music Festival.

With funding and thought partnership from Catalyst Fund, she launched and leads The Future Collective, mobilizing her deep community connections around a movement designed to cultivate Sonoma Valley’s new generation of community leaders.