Kim Fountain

Dr. Kim Fountain (b. 1968) is Chief Operating Officer of the Center on Halsted, the Midwest's largest LGBTQ+ community center, located in Chicago, Illinois.[1] She was previously Executive Director of the Pride Center of Vermont[2][3][4] and Associate Director of Education & Public Advocacy for the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project.[5] Fountain has served on the New York State Crime Victims Board and is a trainer for the Office of Victims of Crime[6][7] and the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs' Reports Committee.[8] She serves on the board of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.[9]

Early life

Fountain grew up in Massachusetts. She is the product of an interracial marriage (Queery podcast, Episode 49, 42:15); her parents, a white father and a Japanese mother,[10] married before anti-miscegenation laws passed. Fountain's father, who was in the army at the time, was told he must leave his wife up north while stationed in the American South, which he refused to accept. He was forced to leave the military because of this. Fountain credits her parents' interracial marriage and steadfast love for each other as providing the foundation for their acceptance of and love for her as a queer woman, since they "understood loving somebody that society tells you is not ok."

Fountain came out as gay in the 1980s, during college. (Queery podcast, Episode 49, 42:47) The first person she told was her residence hall director, also a queer woman. Fountain then came out to her roommates and her parents. (Queery podcast, Episode 49, 44:44) After college, she took a motorcycle trip to Santa Cruz, California, settling there in a "tight-knit lesbian community."[10] She moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York in 1995 to pursue graduate studies at The New School.[10]

Education

Fountain holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Women's Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst[10] and a PhD[7] in Cultural Anthropology from New York's The New School. In school, her emphasis was on studying issues of identity-based violence. (Queery podcast, Episode 49, 4:27) She did field work studying the Presbyterian Church (USA) in order to better understand the intersection of the politics of queerness and religion. (Queery podcast, Episode 49, 4:55)

Career

Fountain has been working in LGBTQ+ movement since the 1980s, when she began as a participant in street demonstrations alongside other queer activists. She formally entered the field in 1995, when she went to work for the New York City LGBT Community Center, (Queery podcast, 3:40) where she spent a year. She then spent ten years working for the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, holding the office of Deputy Director (Queery podcast, 3:48) as well as Associate Director of Education & Public Advocacy.[5] Following that, she worked as Executive Director of the Pride Center of Vermont for five years.[11] She is credited with revitalizing the center, which was struggling to stay afloat financially when she started her tenure.[11][10] Her current post as of 2019, which she's occupied for several years, is Chief Operating Officer of the Center on Halsted, the Midwest's largest LGBTQ+ community center, located in Chicago, Illinois.

Fountain has authored reports such as Rethinking Victim Assistance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Victims of Hate Violence & Intimate Partner Violence (2010).[12] Her speaking engagements have included the Chicago Equality Rally at the Andersonville Midsommarfest,[13][14] the Illinois Women's Health Conference (at which she led the workshop Accessing Women’s Health: Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Women’s Lives at the Intersection of Healthcare and Knowledge),[15] the #WeAreOrlando rally in Burlington, Vermont,[16] the PricewaterhouseCoopers and Center on Halsted panel on LGBT politics in the workplace,[17] Chicago Hacknight (at which she presented on Center on Halsted data), and Lesbians Who Tech

Teaching

Fountain has been a university lecturer for 11 years, instructing in anthropology and gender studies. Her courses have included The Anthropology of Violence; Sexuality and Nation Building; Gender and Social Change; and Gender, Race, and Class.[6]

Other activism

In addition to her jobs and lectures, Fountain has participated in activism activities such as the AIDS Run & Walk Chicago,[18] A Love Letter to Myself: A Chicago Variety Show promoting self-acceptance and empowerment,[19] and storytelling events in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.[20]

Bibliography

As author
  • Addressing Sexual and Relationship Violence in the LGBT Community Using a Bystander Framework (2012)[21]
  • Online Gay High School Offers New Safe Haven for LGBTQ Youth (2011)[22]
  • Rethinking Victim Assistance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Victims of Hate Violence & Intimate Partner Violence (2010)[12]
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Domestic Violence in the United States in 2008: A Report From The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (2009)[23]
  • Culturally Competent Service Provision to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Survivors of Sexual Violence (2009)[24]
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Domestic Violence in the United States in 2006: A Report of the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (2007)[25]

As contributor
  • Understanding the Affordable Housing Development Process: A Primer for LGBT Aging Providers (2018)[26]
  • Culturally Competent Service Provision to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Survivors of Sexual Violence (2009)[27]
  • Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America by Rayna Rapp (2000) [28]

Podcasts
Date Show Episode
2019 Am I Man Enough?[29] n/a
2018 Queery[30] "Kim Fountain"
2016 Vermont Conversation[31] "Kim Fountain: The LGBTQ Struggle Continues"

References
  1. "Center on Halsted - Chicago's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Community Center". www.centeronhalsted.org.
  2. Dover, Haley. "LGBT advocates: Supreme Court follow Vt". Burlington Free Press.
  3. "Kim Fountain: The LGBTQ Struggle Continues". VBSR. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  4. Stewart, Chuck (December 16, 2014). Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience [3 volumes]: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-61069-399-8.
  5. Publishing, Here (September 27, 2005). "The Advocate". Here Publishing – via Google Books.
  6. "Consultant Spotlight". www.ovcttac.gov. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  7. "Summit on hate crimes" (PDF). www.chicago.gov. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  8. "Report" (PDF). 4cv6673q3rq92smo7p3grp2z-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com. 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  9. "Board". NAPAWF.
  10. Freese, Alicia. "Kim Fountain Leads Vermont's LGBTQ Community Through Tragedy". Seven Days.
  11. Freese, Alicia. "Kim Fountain to Leave Pride Center of Vermont". Seven Days.
  12. "Why it matters report" (PDF). victimsofcrime.org. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  13. Staff, GoPride com News. "Hundreds expected for Chicago Equality Rally today in Andersonville". ChicagoPride.com.
  14. Desk, BWW News. "Chicago Equality Rally At Andersonville Midsommarfest Announces Lineup". BroadwayWorld.com.
  15. "Conference agenda" (PDF). ipha.com. 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  16. "#WeAreOrlando". CCTV Center for Media and Democracy. September 27, 2011.
  17. "Panel talks LGBT politics and the workplace - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News Archive". Windy City Times. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
  18. "Donate". events.aidschicago.org. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  19. "Chicago comedy spotlight for Monday, March 12-Thursday, March 15, 2018". Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  20. "Am I Man Enough?: A Storytelling/Podcasting Show". Chicago Reader.
  21. Potter, Sharyn J.; Fountain, Kim; Stapleton, Jane G. (August 21, 2012). "Addressing Sexual and Relationship Violence in the LGBT Community Using a Bystander Framework". Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 20 (4): 201–208. doi:10.3109/10673229.2012.712838. ISSN 1067-3229. PMID 22894729. S2CID 20648727.
  22. "Online Gay High School Programs for LGBTQ Youth". GetEducated. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  23. Fountain, Kim; Mitchell-Brody, Maryse; A. Jones, Stephanie; Nichols, Kaitlin (2009). "LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND QUEER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2008" (PDF). National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  24. "Culturally Competent Service Provision to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Survivors of Sexual Violence". VAWnet.org. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  25. Fountain, Kim (2007). Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Domestic Violence in the United States in 2006: A Report of the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.
  26. "Understanding the Affordable Housing Development Process: A Primer for LGBT Aging Providers". SAGE. May 15, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  27. Gentlewarrior, Sabrina; Fountain, Kim (September 2009). "Culturally Competent Service Provision to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Survivors of Sexual Violence" (PDF). National Resource Center on Violence Against Women. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  28. Rapp, Rayna (November 23, 2004). Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-96392-7.
  29. "Am I Man Enough?: A Storytelling/Podcasting Show". allevents.in. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  30. "Kim Fountain, episode #49 of Queery with Cameron Esposito on Earwolf". www.earwolf.com. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  31. David (June 17, 2016). "Kim Fountain: The LGBTQ Struggle Continues". Vermont Conversation. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
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