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 multiplicity. Combining historical study with psychodynamic theory, her pedagogy values creativity, women-of-color critical theory, somatic experience, and integration of head and heart.  

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 also created a feminist writing program for spiritual leaders to contribute to the public square on issues of justice, human rights, and erased voices. 

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, then serving as a postgraduate fellow at Yale University in gender equity and policy, where she partnered with The OpEd Project's Public Voices Fellowship to support Yale faculty to write beyond the university. Before her academic path, she trained as a therapist, an experience which shapes her holistic teaching and the psychosocial writing practices offered in her programs and courses. She is currently completing a book on contemplative writing practices and the teaching and learning methods that intervene in epistemic violence.