Kimberly Abbott is a broadcast journalist and global communications leader with more than 25 years of experience in news and nonprofit storytelling. She has covered breaking news around the world as an on-air reporter, producer, and booker for CNN in Atlanta and Washington, DC; France 3, BFM Radio, and Radio France in Paris, and in the local Boston and Atlanta news markets.

Building on her on-air experience, she has trained C-Suite leaders, founders and policy experts on message development and camera-ready techniques for targeted audiences. She has led communications, marketing and external relations at nonprofit organizations including the The Fuller Project, the International Crisis Group, InterAction, and World Learning, and consulted for many others, specializing in gender, education, foreign policy and underreported humanitarian issues in post-conflict situations.

She has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the recipient of numerous fellowships in journalism and international affairs, from the Radio Television News Directors Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Atlantik-Brucke German-American Foundation, French American Foundation, and others. Her career has also included time on Capitol Hill, in U.S. presidential politics, and as an envoy and translator for the Centennial Olympic Games.

A French speaker, Kimberly earned a Bachelor of Science in broadcast journalism from Boston University and studied French media at the Ecole Française des Attachés de Presse in Paris. She lives in Maryland with her husband and son.