Founder & Senior Consultant
Advancing with Purpose
Kim Zablud is founder and a senior consultant at Advancing with Purpose, which provides planning and project management for mission-driven organizations. Current clients include the Forth Worth Public Library; the Richland Public Library (SC); and the New Jersey State Library. Previously, Kim worked in leadership roles at the DC Public Library for 11 years. As Chief of Public Services, she oversaw 25 neighborhood libraries, 400 staff, and helped lead a $210 million modernization project for the MLK Central Library in downtown DC.
At DCPL, Kim sponsored and led a host of projects that garnered local and national attention including the Memory Lab Network - a five-year federal grant to provide digital preservation training through libraries; Dig DC - the library’s first digital local history repository with 5,000 items and counting; and the DC Oral History Collaborative - where the city documents stories and memories of community organizations and residents in their own words.
Kim is a member of the Seeding Disruption education leaders fellowship, which helps youth-facing professionals in DC solve problems with equity-driven design thinking. She is an adjunct professor at Catholic and Indiana Universities teaching the Public Libraries course. In prior roles, she worked as a librarian at the New York Public Library and as a project manager at Kadix Systems, a management consulting firm serving government clients. She has an MLIS from Rutgers University, a Master Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the American University, a BA from Carleton College, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
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Monday, June 27, 2022
9:00am – 10:00am