Kim graduated from the School of Resource & Environmental Management in 2002. Her master's project was entitled "Early vegetation responses following gap-based logging at Date Creek, B.C." She is interested in applying disturbance ecology to forest management. Since graduation she has worked in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario as a research biologist with the Canadian Forest Service, studying the behavioural ecology of spruce budworm and as a project forester with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, studying tree instability in plantations.
