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Senior Consultant

Kim M. Simpson, MA

Kim M. Simpson, MA

Kim M. Simpson has served as Senior Consultant to the NASW Foundation since 2014. She is a Project Manager, providing strategic planning and implementation on a wide array of communications, marketing, and fundraising projects. She served as Communications Lead on a $3.3 million NASW / UT Austin, CDC-funded COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence grant, managing national communications, marketing, and advertising for NASW and NASW Foundation (2021-2024). Between 2001 and 2003, she assisted in planning, creation, and official launch of the NASW Foundation. She also serves as a Senior Consultant to NASW on communications and marketing initiatives including Marketing Project Manager for the NASW Press 2018-Present) and was a Co-Creator (writer, narrator, and interviewer/host) of NASW Social Work Talks Podcast (2017-2018). 

The creator and owner of For The Record Photography and Public Affairs, Inc. for more than 20 years, she specializes in strategic communications, fundraising, event planning, marketing, and photography for a diverse client list that has included Members of Congress, government, nonprofit organizations, associations, and corporations, in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Region.

In a career that spans more than 35 years in communications, public affairs, and journalism, Kim also served in senior-level Federal Government positions including Chief of Staff and District Director for Members of Congress; and as a Political Appointee in communications and professional staff positions for the William J. Clinton Administration at the White House and the Office of Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon.  A former State Government / Political Reporter, she worked for television and radio stations in the Midwest.  She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and a Master of Arts Degree in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield.  In a pro bono capacity, she serves as an advocate, donor, and volunteer for organizations that promote animal welfare and seek to end breast cancer. 




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In Episode 5, NASW Social Work Talks Podcast features the Director of the NASW Foundation, Bob Arnold.   Tune in for a discussion about the Foundation's many educational, research, and  charitable  initiatives.