Kathleen Kim Bell
Kathleen “Kat” Kim Bell is currently Head, Assessment and Planning at George Mason University Libraries. She works collaboratively across Mason Libraries to support assessment, strategic planning, and DEI activities. She helped launch the Libraries’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council and is chairing the Library's working group to develop an inclusive excellence plan, a university, and statewide initiative. She is also involved in the university’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center as a Racial Healing Circle facilitator. She serves on several committees for the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC), the Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM), and other Virginia and DC-area organizations. She is a 2018 graduate of the Minnesota Institute. Before joining Mason, she worked in a variety of archives, museums, and nonprofits. She has a BA and MA in dance, an MLS, and, most recently, an MS in organization development and knowledge management.