Kimberly Bender is a cultural administrator and public historian who reinterprets established narratives. Over the last decade, she has transformed the Heurich House Museum into a vibrant and inclusive space that explores (im)migration, labor, and the American experience. Key to Kim’s work is her background as an attorney, which has not only helped her reinvent organizations, but assists in her DC history research.

Her public history work currently focuses on the unbuilt Chevy Chase neighborhood of Belmont and historic DC education leader Myrtilla Miner. Kim is working to get a new purpose-built state archives for the District of Columbia, and is a past appointee of the DC Council’s Archives Advisory Group, and the founder/President of the DC Archives Foundation.