Introducing Our New Executive Director - Kim Borman
MAYOR WALSH AND BOSTON WOMEN’S WORKFORCE COUNCIL WELCOME KIMBERLY BORMAN AS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
BOSTON - Monday, May 18, 2020 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the co-chairs of the Boston Women’s Workforce Council (BWWC), Cathy Minehan and Evelyn Murphy, today announced Kimberly Borman as the new executive director of BWWC, a public-private partnership between Mayor Walsh and the business community in the Greater Boston area. Together, they work to close gender pay gaps in Boston by removing visible and invisible barriers to advancement for women in the workforce.
“The work of the Boston Women’s Workforce Council is vital for striving to achieve gender equality in the workforce throughout the City of Boston. This very important work seeks not only equal pay, but also equal opportunity,” said Mayor Walsh. “The collaboration and partnership between the City and businesses has made significant progress, and I’m looking forward to working with Kimberly Borman and seeing her hard work be put into action.”
As executive director, Borman will focus on recruiting more employers to join the more than 250 100% Talent Compact signers that work with Mayor Walsh to advance pay equity for their women workers. Borman will lead all operations of the Council’s work, including the Innovative Initiatives Competition and the annual Effective Practices Conference. She will also oversee the organization’s biennial gender wage assessment, which uses an anonymous and secure information sharing process that allows Boston to be the only city in the nation to compute its own local income gap statistics. She will work closely with Eric Kolaczyk, director of Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute of Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and his team, who serve as the BWWC’s data partner.
“I am so pleased that Kim Borman will be our new Executive Director,” said Cathy Minehan, co-chair of the BWWC. “She brings a wealth of business experience to this position, as well as a grounding in the realities of social service organizations. I expect real progress in addressing the many issues involved in closing the gender wage gap.”
“Kim Borman is a natural leader. She has a talent for bringing focus to dealing with complex issues such as the gender wage gap. Her in-depth experience in management, marketing and operations will be invaluable,” said Evelyn Murphy, co-chair for the BWWC. “Under her leadership, we expect to achieve significant progress in making Boston the best place for working women in America.”
Borman has held senior leadership positions at a variety of top Boston agencies including Bronner Slosberg Humphrey (now Digitas), Arnold Worldwide and Hill Holliday, and owned an agency in the South End for several years. She has experience in both private and non-profit marketing, having worked with a wide-range of companies and organizations including Bose Corporation, AT&T, Arbella Insurance Group, Athenahealth, Irish International Immigrant Center (now The Rian Immigrant Center) and Health Care For All. A graduate of Brown University and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, Kim recently earned her Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
“I am thrilled to be helping advance the important mission of the BWWC,” said Kimberly Borman. “Now more than ever, the timing is right to address some of the longstanding inequities in compensation and opportunity available to women in the workforce today. I am excited and eager to help advance the critical mission of the BWWC.”
ABOUT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT
The Mayor's Office of Women's Advancement creates specific programming and opportunities that support three priority areas: economic equity, safety, and empowerment and representation. Some of the office's most recent work includes: research on childcare affordability; a multi-pronged approach to closing the gender pay gaps; reducing the demand for commercial sexual exploitation; and creating specific programming for women entrepreneurs. Learn more on their website.
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