Who is Kimberly Wimbish?
Kimberly Wimbish is known as the People Connector. She can take any brand, person, place, cause or mission to create the vision you want with the resources needed to be successful. Too many she is the marketing & brand guru of the Hampton Roads community. Kimberly is a mother first, entrepreneur, businesswoman & full-time college student at Norfolk State University. While attending the university she currently is the Special Events Publicist for the Athletics program for basketball and football. While moving & shaking the community she uses her marketing savvy skills & innovative approach to do the back-end work for many nonprofit organizations, small businesses, college universities, celebrity clients, sports management marketing, political campaigns, corporate industry branding and always giving back to the less fortunate.
Kimberly Wimbish gained experience in sales, management, grassroots marketing and community outreach at a very early age working as first the Store Manager at DTLR, wearing many hats as the Community Outreach Director and Marketing Director for 13 years. In 2013 Kimberly was in a tragic car accident while at work. At that time, she was out of work for a year and begin studying Event Management at Thomas Nelson Community College. This is the time she also realized it would be a great opportunity to really focus on her business KMK Productions. Originally KMK Productions started out as an event management and production company. It would be very soon that Kimberly would realize her true passion and talent was in the public relations field.
Kimberly Wimbish has consulted on many local political campaigns such as the election of the Honorable Kenneth Cooper Alexander the 1st black mayor in Norfolk, The Honorable Lakeesha Atkinson the youngest and first openly LGBT member on the Portsmouth School Board and most recent 2017 election of Delegate-Elect Jerrauld Jones House of Delegates 89th District. She has lectured at many colleges, public schools and educational programs.
Kimberly Wimbish has served on the Portsmouth NAACP Executive Board for the past four years. Her current position she serves as Chairperson of WIN (Women In NAACP). She is an Executive Board Member on Black Brand serving as Community Outreach Chair. Kimberly is a community activist, feminist and well-known leader in the Hampton Roads community. She has a passion to raise awareness on issues that are critical to women, such as health, women’s rights, leadership, advocacy, equality and more.
Kimberly Wimbish current clients consist of representing small business owners, mega churches, HBCU university, political officials, community leaders/board members, elected officials, state/local programs, and nonprofit organizations. Kimberly is the spokesperson for Banister Nissan of Norfolk and Chesapeake which represents the national brand Nissan. Her passion to giveback is displayed every year with her annual Heartbeat Gala in support of heart disease in the African American community, the annual Lupus/Fibromyalgia Walk and the Passion for Pink breast cancer awareness expo.
Kimberly Wimbish work has appeared on dozens of national television, publications and radio programming just to name a few including Fox News, CNN, BET, Essence, Ebony, Jet, CBN, Washington Post, Vibe, Source, New York Times, Guardian and others. Her connections are endless, and she has the local media market news, radio, podcasts and newspaper on her extensive rolodex too.
For the last five years Kimberly has served the homeless on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day on the streets of Portsmouth providing hot meals. Kimberly is a mentor to young girls through her nonprofit organization When Queens Lead Foundation. The mission is a to provide a global connection for all women that are making a difference in their communities, nonprofit, leadership, entrepreneurship, mentoring and more. Kimberly created the 100 Young Queens Tenn Summit which gathers 100 plus teenage girls ages 13-19 with mentoring, breakout sessions, guest speakers, female entrepreneurs and more. It's a week that's consists of free events for young girls.
Kimberly has dedicated her life too paving a way for others, being a mentor and servant to those in need. Her passion is to use her ties to make a better place for all. Kimberly’s work has only begun. We look forward to seeing what the future holds for her and the lives she will touch.