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Kimberly Hilliard
Executive Director of Community Engagement, Jackson State University
Location: Jackson, MS United States
Joined: Oct 16th, 2013

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Kimberly Hilliard serves as Director of Jackson State University – Center for University-Based Development. Dr. Hilliard, a native of Washington, D.C., holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tuskegee University, a M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of New Orleans, and obtained her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning Department from Jackson State University in 2007.

Dr. Hilliard’s areas of expertise are in comprehensive planning practices, real estate development, community revitalization, and historic preservation. She has over twenty-five years of consulting in the areas of engineering, urban planning, economic development, and historic preservation. She designed and managed various multi-million dollar construction projects during her early career. Her work in Jackson, Mississippi has centered on inner city redevelopment. She holds certification in Affordable Housing Financing, Historic Preservation, and Community Facilitation. Dr. Hilliard’s academic lecturers traditionally focuses on the subjects of emerging trends for housing policies, community development, local economic development strategies, and historic preservation in African American communities.

Dr. Hilliard serves as a mayoral appointee on the City of Jackson – Mechanical Board; Vice President - Board of Trustees for the Mississippi First; Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society; Advisory Board for Midtown Partners, and Preservation Fellow for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In the past, she served as Advisory Board Member for the Jackson Community Design Center and Chair of the Mississippi African American Historic Preservation Council. Actively involved in many social and professional organizations, her passion is working with community participatory processes. She is the founder of the public forum - Town and Coffee®, which was considered for a New Orleans cable television show. Her master thesis, The New Orleans Craftsman: An Endangered Species – A Case Study to preserve the Building Arts, was used as one of the primary resources for the 2003 Special Exhibit – Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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Jackson State University class of 2007

Undergrad Major: Urban Planning

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I currently work with Jackson State University as Executive Director of Community Engagement
I have years of experience working in the Executive Management industry.

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