About Us
Kim grew up with a subsconscious knowing that immersion in nature gifted her with serenity, and she cherished the opportunity in high school to read and analyze literature. On a changing planet that seems to value kindness and respect less and less, she is motivated by a longing to protect other beings, the natural world, and all of the interconnections it nurtures - connections which at their core endeavor to support all life. Informed by interdisciplinary thinking, including the spiritual dimensions of human-animal relationships, deep ecology, and systems theory, she believes that we have the potential to thrive as one community of life. Central to a Well world is a collective shift in consciousness, which includes introducing humans to concepts of animal subjectivity and perspective-taking - alongside empathic skill development - and reconnecting humans with their emotionality, highest selves, and experiences of kinship with other beings.
Kim loves to tell the stories of humans creating lasting change for animals - through boots-on-the-ground rescue and sytems-level change alike - in hopes of highlighting the urgency in reconstructing failed systems and healing flawed human-animal relationships. She finds it crucial to reach humans across the spectrum of life and experience (from young adults with budding careers, to legislators and policy-makers, to lifelong learners across cultures and geographies), as well as to engage true animal sanctuaries with compassion-education programming. Through these pathways, we might kindle empathy and prompt mental, social-emotional, and behaviorial changes that, over time, have powerful potential to increase the health and flourishing of individuals, species, wild places, and whole systems.
Alongside landscape and nature photography, Kim likes to write, read, experience new places and learn new things. Driven by curiosity and a desire to work on behalf of the more-than-human world and all beings in need - along with an innate sensitivity to the world around her and a busy mind - she likes to explore and imagine, vision and create. Kim adopted Sunny in October of 2013, two months after her great African adventure and American road trip, when she found herself in a quiet and enrapturing mountain community. Kim spends lots of time hiking with Sunny, learning, and thinking about the universe and Earth - while ideating on projects that will spread compassion and looking for moments of joy and peace along the way.