Kimberly Charles, Director of Digital Communications - University of Illinois at Chicago

Kim has worked on small and large websites in Higher Education for nearly 20 years. As a member of the Public and Government Affairs leadership team at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), she leads the effort to address the content and development needs of mission critical websites as well as addressing needs across campus websites of information architecture, content management, usability, accessibility, identity standards and analytics. All of which is possible through a collaborative effort between her Digital Communications staff and a team from UIC’s Academic Computing and Communications Center.

She has a Master’s degree in Communications from UIC and an MLIS degree from the iSchool at Illinois and loves biking along Lake Michigan from her home in Chicago.