Kimberly Burgess Simms

Kimberly Burgess Simms serves as Senior Policy Advisor for the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Early Childhood Development. In that role, she leads efforts to increase compensation and opportunities for career advancement for the early childhood workforce. She previously served in ACF’s Office of Regional Operations in Region 10. Prior to joining ACF, Kim led a team of early childhood research and policy analysts in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. During the Obama Administration, she served as Policy Advisor for Education at the White House Office of the Domestic Policy Council, where she advised on early education issues.

She started her career in government as a Presidential Management Fellow, and served as an Education Pioneers Fellow at the Oakland Unified School District. Kim holds a Master’s in Public Policy at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies. Prior to graduate school, she had a career in nonprofit management that included developing a school based youth mentoring program in Seattle and leading experiential Civil Rights and Holocaust oral history programs with high school students.

Senior Policy Advisor for the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Early Childhood Development