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City Connect Detroit: Bio
Kimberly Trent
Director
Governor's Southeast Michigan Office
Kim Trent began her career as an award-winning city hall reporter for The Detroit News, covering the city’s housing department, Detroit City Council and the mayoral administrations of Coleman A. Young and Dennis W. Archer. She left the paper in 1995. In 1996, she moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where she earned a graduate degree in African Studies from the University of Cape Town. She returned to the United States in 1997 and after a brief stint as a city hall reporter for the Toledo Blade, joined the Washington staff of Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. After five years as Congresswoman Kilpatrick’s Communications Director, Ms. Trent joined the staff of United States Senator Debbie Stabenow as Stabenow’s regional manager for Detroit in 2003. In 2007, she was appointed Director of Governor Jennifer M. Granholm’s Southeast Michigan office.
Trent earned a bachelor’s of arts degree in journalism and Africana studies from Wayne State University in 1991. She also holds a master’s of arts degree in communication from Wayne State University. She has completed fellowships with the American Political Science Association in Washington D.C. and the Michigan Political Leadership Program at Michigan State University. She is also a graduate of Leadership Detroit. She continues to write for local and national publications.
Trent is Immediate Past President of both the Wayne State University Organization of Black Alumni and the Inkster Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She serves on the boards of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Friends of African and African American Art, the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, Family Service Inc. and the Michigan Democratic Party Black Caucus. She is an elected Democratic Party precinct delegate and Policy and Resolutions Committee Chairwoman for the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party Organization.
She has received many awards, including the State Bar of Michigan’s Liberty Bell Award, Michigan Democratic Party’s Martin Luther King Leadership Award, YWCA of Western Wayne County’s Woman of Achievement Award, the Detroit Chapter of the National Organization of Women’s Harriet Tubman Award and the National Women’s Political Caucus of Michigan’s Millie Award.
She lives in downtown Detroit with her husband, Ken Coleman.
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