Kim Holder is the Director of the University of West Georgia’s (UWG) Center for Economic Education and Lecturer of Economics in the Richards College of Business (RCOB). She’s an alumna of UWG and Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

Kim’s passion for her students is notable both inside and outside of the classroom. Her work on campus has been recognized by the UWG Student Government Association’s Faculty Member of the Year Award (2014), the UWG Alumni Association’s J. Owen Moore Faculty Award (2016), and the UWG Athletic Foundation’s Faculty Member of the Year Westpy Award (2016) which was created in recognition of her service. She is also the recipient of the RCOB Excellence in Teaching (2014), Service (2015), and Research (2016) awards, along with multiple faculty-sponsored undergraduate research awards for mentoring undergraduate research students. Most recently, Kim earned the 2017 UWG Employee of the Year Award, the university’s highest honor for faculty and staff.

Her work in economics education has been recognized most recently by the 1st Place Best in Class Award (2015) by the National Economics Teaching Association and the Rising Star Award (2016) by the National Association of Economics Educators. Kim also serves as a founding advisory board member of the Journal of Economics Teaching, co-chairs the Technology Committee for the National Association of Economics Educators, and is a board member focused on economic education for the Association of Private Enterprise Education.