Kimberly is an adjunct instructor in the University Studies Department at Portland State University.  She teaches the Grantwriting for Animals Senior Capstone courses, in which students combine service and learning to write proposals for community partners working in the animal welfare and wildlife conservation sectors. Kimberly has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Master of Science degree in Experimental Psychology, focusing on animal cognition research and ethology.  Her work with chimpanzees includes a variety of captive and wild settings, and encompasses everything from sign language and nonverbal communication to mathematical and other cognitive tasks with chimps who worked on touchscreen computers.  In the late ‘90s, she volunteered for the Jane Goodall Institute and Uganda National Parks with one of the very first island sanctuaries to help young chimpanzee survivors of the international poaching trade.