Ann Kim

Senior Managing Advisor

A communications strategist with roots in journalism, Ann Kim helps academic health systems realize opportunities in the evolving healthcare landscape. She brings expertise in media relations and over a decade of experience in executive, change management and crisis communications to her role at Jarrard Inc.

Before joining the firm, Kim directed corporate communications for two healthcare organizations: Central Maine Healthcare, a three-hospital system, and InterMed, P.A., the largest physician-owned medical group in Maine. Her strategic counsel, storytelling abilities, writing skills and advocacy background helped advance their goals during periods of rapid change.

She also guided communications for regional units of the American Red Cross to inspire volunteerism and charitable giving for unprecedented back-to-back national hurricane responses and to engage team members during an organizational restructuring. At the Maine Legislature, she earned positive coverage for her leaders and caucus amid many competing media narratives.

Kim previously worked for 14 years in daily journalism, first at bureaus of The Associated Press in New Hampshire and Maine. She then reported for The News & Observer in North Carolina and the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, covering beats including public safety, courts, business and state and local government.

A native of California, Kim holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University and earned her master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Worth Knowing

1. Served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at a San Francisco neighborhood economic development organization
2. Raised on AP Style but flexible about commas when warranted
3. Tiramisu is my most requested potluck contribution