Dr. Kimberly B. George is a writer, teacher, and scholar of gender, race, and religious history. She teaches contemplatives the value of engaging feminist history for building a multiracial and multireligious democracy.  As a longtime writing doula, she creates curriculum on writing as spiritual activism, with a focus on practices that explore epistemic, racial, and religious diversity. Combining historical study with psychodynamic theory, her pedagogy values creativity, women-of-color critical theory, somatic experience, and integration of head and heart.  She is writing a book on contemplative pedagogies and writing practices that challenge structural violence and transform culture.

While deeply shaped by academic life and an affiliate of Columbia University, she works to open the enclosures of academia to support lifelong learning, liberatory writing, and social change. Her programs have trained leaders—including in education, medicine, philanthropy, psychotherapy, and religious leadership— to root into a feminist, decolonial, and critical race framework.

She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego. She was a Merit Scholar at Yale Divinity School, earning an M.A. in religious history (summa cum laude), then serving as a postgraduate fellow at Yale University in gender equity and policy. Before her academic path, she trained as a therapist, an experience which shapes her holistic pedagogy and the psychosocial writing practices offered in her programs and courses.