Kim Barnette, PhD

Dr. Kim Barnette is a data analysis Fellow. She offers a wealth of experience as a consultant, project director, and senior researcher, helping local and federal government agencies by translating their data into useful information. She leverages her strengths as a leader, mentor, strategic planner, facilitator, public speaker, and collaborator while cultivating opportunities for academic partners, technicians and data scientists to develop products and deliver services. Kim previously managed the General Services Administration (GSA) portfolio at LMI. She has over 20 years of experience as a skilled facilitator, executive leader, program evaluator, and academic trainer. She offers a wealth of experience as a consultant, project director, and senior researcher, translating local and federal government agency data into useful information. As an LMI Fellow (2022-23 cohort), she is an outstanding source of deep domain expertise in people analytics and takes a data-driven approach to employee recruitment, selection, engagement, and retention. As a 2022 Community Connector LMI Luminary Awardee, she was recognized for benefiting our academic community and growing our academic partnerships.

Kim also supports LMI’s Applied Research & Partnerships, strengthening and expanding academic relationships. (She has previously served as our liaison to Howard University and to the University of Virginia School of Data Science). She wants to expand on that work with universities to ensure that students are afforded opportunities to support LMI Forge research and development activities, learn new skills, and increase their digital enablement IQ. She is particularly passionate about advancing STEAM goals — integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and arts education, and believes innovation and digital enablement are key to this advancement.  

Kim came to LMI in August 2019 from the University of the District of Columbia, where she brought her extensive background in analytics consulting into the classroom environment, teaching mathematics and statistics courses. Before her time at UDC, Kim was the chief operating officer of Delta Decisions of DC, LLC, a management consulting firm that she cofounded in 2006.

Kim received her PhD in operations research in 2000 from North Carolina State University, her master’s in applied mathematics in 1994 from Clark Atlanta University, and her bachelor’s in mathematics in 1992 from Spelman College. In her spare time, she volunteers as an experienced member and leader on non-profit boards She is president of the board of trustees for Imagination Stage, which brings theatre arts education to youth in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and a member of the Board of Directors for DC Action, an organization focused on making the District of Columbia a place where all young people grow up safe and resilient.