Saint Luke's Foundation

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Kim St. John-Stevenson joined the Saint Lukes Foundation in April 2007. A native of Connecticut, St. John-Stevenson is a creative, strategic thinker with more than 20 years experience in developing and implementing marketing communications solutions in the profit and non-profit sectors. Prior to joining the Foundation, St. John-Stevenson worked for BrownFlynn, Great Lakes Theater Festival and National City Bank in Cleveland, as well as for Travelers Insurance and Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut.

Additional work experience included communications positions held with the University of Connecticut, Southern New England Telephone Company (now AT&T) and the State of Connecticut House of Representatives.

Kim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Connecticut and is a 1995 graduate of Leadership Greater Hartford, a 2003 graduate of the Diversity Center’s LeadDIVERSITY Program and a 2000 inductee in the Kaleidoscope Magazine 40 under 40 Club. In April 2010, she was named Communicator of the Year by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Greater Cleveland Chapter.

Actively involved in a number of professional and community organizations throughout her career, Kim's long list of involvements include the IABC (Greater Hartford/CT and Greater Cleveland), the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), Ideastream (Community Advisory Board), the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, the Cleveland International Film Festival (Selection Committee-Short Films), the YWCA of Greater Cleveland, and the African-American Philanthropy Committee of The Cleveland Foundation. She has also served as a mentor for the Mandel Center for Non-Profit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University, and in 2003 was selected to be a member of the Cuyahoga County Cultural Leadership Taskforce, a team convened by the Board of Commissioners of Cuyahoga County to develop a system for the distribution of local public sector funds for arts and culture.

An accomplished public speaker and writer, Ms. St. John-Stevenson is frequently asked by nonprofit organizations to speak on various marketing communications topics of interest, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Kaleidoscope Magazine in Cleveland and Traditions, the alumni publication for the University of Connecticut.