Kimberly Flowers

Kimberly Flowers is the executive director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs at Colby College, where she advances the institution's engagement with public policy issues across academic disciplines. Previously, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), she was named the first full-time director for the Global Food Security Program in 2015 and created and directed the Humanitarian Agenda program in 2017. During her time at CSIS, she primarily analyzed the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance programs and policies that impact global hunger and malnutrition and became a frequent speaker, moderator, and author on issues ranging from the global food system to humanitarian aid. Ms. Flowers has published in Forbes; Georgetown University’s Journal of International Affairs; and has been quoted in congressional testimonies, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Post. She led a high-level task force on humanitarian access constraints and conducted field research in more than 12 countries, including leading bipartisan, bicameral congressional staff delegations. Prior to joining CSIS, Ms. Flowers was the communications director for Fintrac, an international development company focusing on hunger eradication and poverty alleviation through agricultural solutions. From 2005 to 2011, she worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, serving overseas as a development, outreach, and communications officer in Ethiopia and Jamaica; supporting public affairs in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake; and leading strategic communications for the U.S. government’s global hunger and nutrition initiative. Ms. Flowers began her international development career in 1999 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria, where she founded a young women’s leadership camp that continues today. She also served as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in Jamaica in 2004. She is a magna cum laude graduate of William Jewell College, studied at Oxford University, and is an alumna of the Pryor Center for Leadership Development.
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2022 Washington Humanitarian Forum: Closing the Gap
Event — November 9, 2022
Recapping the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health with Ertharin Cousin
Podcast Episode by Kimberly Flowers — October 21, 2022

What Will Come from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health?
Critical Questions by Kimberly Flowers — October 20, 2022
Reimagining Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance with Anders Dalsgaard and Paul Plummer
Podcast Episode by Kimberly Flowers — December 9, 2021

Antimicrobial Resistance and Climate Change: Implications for Policy and Practice in LMICs
Event — November 5, 2021
Rethinking Technology’s Role in Food Systems with Danielle Nierenberg
Podcast Episode by Kimberly Flowers — October 29, 2021

Reviewing the UN Food Systems Summit with Agnes Kalibata
Podcast Episode by Kimberly Flowers — October 15, 2021

Reconciling the History of Famine in Ethiopia and the Current Humanitarian Crisis with Alex DeWaal
Podcast Episode by Kimberly Flowers and Jacob Kurtzer — August 20, 2021

Navigating Humanitarian Access During Covid-19: Towards Localization
Event — April 14, 2021
Rethinking Interagency Balance amid a Pandemic, Presidential Transition, and Soaring Global Food Insecurity
Critical Questions by Kimberly Flowers — January 14, 2021