Deputy Borough President, Reverend, and fierce community advocate are all words you can use to describe Kim Council. All her life, Rev. Kim Council has dedicated her career to the communities and people of Brooklyn, focused on finding ways to better lives and strengthen opportunities for all. As Deputy Borough President, she carries this work out on a borough-wide scale, working with faith-based and community leaders to find solutions for some of the biggest challenges facing our borough from housing to food insecurity and violence.
Brooklyn-born and -raised, Kim grew up in HUD-subsidized housing as the oldest of five children. Her family grew up working hard to provide – fighting evictions and food insecurity despite both her parents working full-time jobs.
While there wasn’t much spare cash in the home, there was boundless love and support. And in Bed-Stuy, neighbors always had each other’s backs.
Fast forward some years, Kim is known as many things – law librarian, assistant pastor, and a former executive no-profit leader. Guided by her faith, her work is extensive and always on the forefront of the issues pressing Brooklyn. As the executive director of the Berean Community and Family Life Center, she provided preventative health care, built affordable housing, and created youth development programs and violence prevention programs. As vice chair of the Local Development Corporation of East New York, Kim was vital in providing resources and support to small businesses. And while president of the East Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation, she spearheaded the construction of over one thousand units of affordable housing.
Now, as Brooklyn’s Deputy Borough President, Kim is a fearless community leader who has been continuously devoted to fighting for the best for Brooklyn communities across the borough. Leveraging on her expertise, within her first year at Borough Hall, she launched the administration’s first roundtable on how faith-based organizations can champion affordable housing in Brooklyn, built momentum to end gun violence boroughwide, and brought resources to Business Improvement Districts and merchant associations to help support local businesses.
On the day-to-day, she meets Brooklynites and local organizations and businesses across the borough while problem-solving how to bring resources to the table to our communities that have been long underrepresented. Deputy Brooklyn Borough President Rev. Kim Council is Brooklyn’s own powerhouse of advocacy, wit, and hard work moving our borough forward.
Today, Deputy Borough President Council calls Cypress Hills home, where she lives with her daughter and son, Nicole and George.
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