Allison Kimmich

Allison Kimmich, PhD, is executive director of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). Her writings about women’s studies and girls' issue have appeared in op-eds, newsletters, and blogs. Under Allison’s leadership, NWSA has grown into an international network of nearly 2,500 members with professional development, research, and advocacy initiatives to support women’s studies and women’s center professionals.

She spearheads the development of a national conference that draws more than 1,600 registrants annually featuring the latest feminist research. Kimmich has organized a meeting of women’s studies faculty at the invitation of the White House Council on Women and Girls and attended a Department of Education-sponsored roundtable on civic engagement in higher education.

Kimmich was among the first wave of women’s studies doctoral graduates in the United States; she holds a PhD and an MA in women’s studies from Emory University where her research focused on how writers’ social and political locations shape their memoirs. She earned her BA in English and French from Muskingum College.

She lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband, nine-year-old son, and eleven-year-old daughter.