Dr. Kimberly Boulden is the Director MATTERS within MATTERS Network, a division of UBMD Emergency medicine. She brings over 10 years of leadership experience to MATTERS and has worked at both the national and local levels to implement and scale harm reduction and recovery-supportive programming. Boulden’s leadership practice centers on effective systems change, transformative assessment, and sustainable community collaboration. She holds a doctorate in Education and has published research on effective university partnerships, stigma surrounding substance use disorder, and responsible computing best practices. From teaching to advising to admissions, Kimberly Boulden has worked across departments to build transformative and empowered learning communities. In addition to her work around substance use on campus, she sits on the board of directors for the Impossible Project, a nonprofit that supports educators as they integrate socially responsible teaching into their curriculum.

Since 2020, Kimberly has worked with the University at Buffalo, a recipient of Mozilla Foundation's "Responsible Computing Challenge" grant. She has worked with faculty in Computer Science and Engineering, History, Media Studies, Education, and English to implement interdisciplinary learning modules in the following classes: CSE 199 (Fall '21, Fall '22), CSE 440: Machine Learning and Society (Spring '22), CSE 441: Ending White Supremacy Online (Spring '23), DMS 309: Computing Technology as Art (Fall '24), ENG 105: Achieving Linguistic Justice (Fall '24) HS 199: Forging the Afro-Future, and ED 433: Critical Computational Literacy. She has presented at regional and national conferences on interdisciplinary approaches to teaching computing.