Kimberly is a Nigerian woman—replete with Louisiana charm and an NYC-inspired sense of bravado. For an easy in, start a conversation with Kimberly about the songs you hum in the shower, the live theater that most impacted you, or the guiltiest television pleasure you can't live without. Kimberly has brought this good humor and humanity to her 20+ years of leadership experience in education, nonprofits, and philanthropy. An educator by training and a nonprofit executive by experience, Kimberly currently supports executives to develop high-performing talent, transform organizational cultures, and execute bold strategic visions as an independent consultant.

Most recently, Kimberly served as Vice President of Programs at Echoing Green—an organization dedicated to disbursing capital, building community, and developing capacity for 1,000+ social innovators across 80+ countries. She led the strategy, design, and execution of the Fellow experience, overseeing selections through alumni engagement and driving programmatic innovation within the $75M+ Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund. During the three-year Fund, Kimberly exceeded ambitious targets by creating strategic pathways for 6,100+ social innovation leaders and disbursing $20M+ in unrestricted grants to scale early-stage ventures. She enhanced operational efficacy by restructuring and realigning the Programs team, introducing role-specific professional development frameworks, and codifying processes across five operational verticals. Ever equity-driven, she instituted bias-disrupting reviewer training reaching 500+ evaluators annually, strengthening equitable selection processes that benefited thousands of global applicants. Additionally, Kimberly oversaw a comprehensive redesign of the 18-month Fellow experience, including relaunching and expanding global convenings post-pandemic. An engaging speaker and ambassador for trust-based, equity-driven philanthropy, she regularly authored and presented at high-profile forums, including SxSW EDU, Philanthropy News Digest, Skoll World Forum, Yale, and Race Forward.

Kimberly started her career in Harlem as a middle school English and Social Studies teacher at a traditional public school, and a Founding Reading Department Lead and high school Reading teacher at Democracy Prep Charter High School. She quickly became a lead teacher - elevated as a model classroom for superintendent school reviews, coaching resident teachers in partnership with City College, and launching department-wide independent reading systems to boost comprehension by two grade levels in a year’s time. To grow her impact, Kimberly turned her focus to adult learning and joined the founding team at Relay GSE - the first standalone graduate school of education to launch in New York in over 80 years. During her tenure as Founding Associate Dean, Assistant Professor of Practice, and Director of Teaching & Learning, Kimberly launched and tripled the organization’s partnership with the NYC Teaching Fellows, trained 650+ novice district and charter school teachers around general pedagogy and cultural responsiveness, and designed and delivered high-quality in-person and online programming. She shared her pedagogical expertise locally and abroad at Harvard's Alumni of Color Conference, Teach for America's National Conference, South Africa's Lebone College faculty training, and Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls' review team.

To continue growing her content expertise, Kimberly pursued a doctorate full-time while taking on a diverse set of client engagements. As Lead K-12 Equity Consultant at both Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School’s Public Education Leadership Project, Kimberly supported districts, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs to design and scale culturally relevant behavior management systems for students, to train faculty members around managing racial tensions in graduate-level discussion, to design and scale equitable performance management structures for central office and school-based staff, and to draft more inclusive messaging and collateral for an expanding startup’s clientele. Between coursework and consulting, Kimberly spent time in Lebanon exploring the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on a compassionate, yet strained school system. Finally, in a year-long effort that became her thesis, Kimberly lent her equity lens to the Walton Family Foundation's K-12 Education team - one of the largest education funders in the United States. As Program Officer in Residence, Kimberly proposed grants to support leaders of color and intentionally diverse schools, while advising team leadership around designing more inclusive and equitable internal talent structures.

Newly-minted Dr. Osagie took on a dual focus as Vice President for the Educator Success team at Curriculum Associates. Internally, Kimberly supported the newly-expanded People Operations team to develop its first-ever inclusion strategy for 800+ staff. Externally, she managed in-person and online program design to support educator teams in 11,000+ of the nation’s school systems. Kimberly then brought her expertise on diverse, inclusive, and equitable talent strategy to Promise54, a national talent consulting and executive search firm for mission-driven organizations. In her role as Partner, Kimberly managed matrixed consultant teams to co-design inclusive talent strategy for a $1M portfolio of clientele; designed and delivered management curricula and coaching to 100+ senior executives; co-authored the interactive series, DEI in Action: A Radically Human Approach to Case Studies; and managed the strategy, design, and implementation of an annual DEI Accelerator cohort of 40+ organizations.

Kimberly has earned multiple degrees and accolades, including a Doctorate in Education Leadership from Harvard; a Master's in Teaching Secondary English from Pace University; and undergraduate degrees in English and Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia as a Jefferson, Echols, and Honorary Holland Scholar. A celebrated leader, Kimberly was selected as a Pahara Fellow for her education leadership (2014), earned a Derek Bok Center for Teaching Excellence Award at Harvard (2017), granted an Equity Lab Seeding Disruption fellowship for her interest in place-based approaches to disrupting inequity (2020), and selected as a Black Fox Fellow for her equity-driven philanthropy leadership (2022 & 2023). After a decade in New York City, Kimberly currently lives in Washington, DC with a pandemic-inspired, ever-expanding collection of houseplants.