Kim Behan

USA

Kim Behan

USA

Kim Behan is a founding member of Buddhist Global Relief. She served as Executive Director from 2009 to 2016, and returned to that position in 2019. From 2016-2019, she served as the Director of Programs at Buddhist Global Relief.

Kim Behan holds a B.S. in Management from Rutgers University and an M.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Before she came to Buddhist Global Relief, she worked as a Project Manager and Software Developer for Bell Laboratories, AT&T, and Avaya. Kim Behan in 2009 early retired in order to earnestly study the Buddha’s teachings. She also made a vow to devote her life to helping the poor of the world with the spiritual guidance of Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi.

She is also the co-founder of a nonprofit which provides medical assistance to impoverished communities in Vietnam.

Kim Behan is a woman leader who speaks out to end hunger, poverty and injustice and was thus in 2012 named an Oxfam Sisters on the Planet Ambassador. In 2021, Kim Behan received the Dr. Ambedkar Prabuddha Bharata Peace Award.