Kimberly graduated from UCLA in 2021 and majored in Biological Sciences with a minor in Chicanx & Central American Studies. She joined the Kornblith team in August 2021 as a Staff Research Associate. She began working at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in Rheumatology industry clinical trials as a CRC. She decided to move back to SF and continued working as a CRC for the department of Hematology-Oncology for a few months before transferring back over to the Kornblith lab working for the department of Cardiovascular Research Institute.