Kim Fountain

Fountain has authored reports such as Rethinking Victim Assistance for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Victims of Hate Violence & Intimate Partner Violence (2010). Her speaking engagements have included the Chicago Equality Rally at the Andersonville Midsommarfest, the Illinois Women's Health Conference (at which she led the workshop Accessing Women’s Health: Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Women’s Lives at the Intersection of Healthcare and Knowledge), the #WeAreOrlando rally in Burlington, Vermont, the PricewaterhouseCoopers and Center on Halsted panel on LGBT politics in the workplace, Chicago Hacknight (at which she presented on Center on Halsted data), and Lesbians Who Tech

Fountain came out as gay in the 1980s, during college. The first person she told was her residence hall director, also a queer woman. Fountain then came out to her roommates and her parents. After college, she took a motorcycle trip to Santa Cruz, California, settling there in a "tight-knit lesbian community." She moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York in 1995 to pursue graduate studies at The New School.

Fountain has been working in LGBTQ+ movement since the 1980s, when she began as a participant in street demonstrations alongside other queer activists. She formally entered the field in 1995, when she went to work for the New York City LGBT Community Center, where she spent a year. She then spent ten years working for the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, holding the office of Deputy Director as well as Associate Director of Education & Public Advocacy. Following that, she worked as Executive Director of the Pride Center of Vermont for five years. She is credited with revitalizing the center, which was struggling to stay afloat financially when she started her tenure. Her current post as of 2019, which she's occupied for several years, is Chief Operating Officer of the Center on Halsted, the Midwest's largest LGBTQ+ community center, located in Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. Kim Fountain (born 1968) is Chief Operating Officer of the Center on Halsted, the Midwest's largest LGBTQ+ community center, located in Chicago, Illinois. She was previously Executive Director of the Pride Center of Vermont and Associate Director of Education & Public Advocacy for the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Fountain has served on the New York State Crime Victims Board and is a trainer for the Office of Victims of Crime and the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs' Reports Committee. She serves on the board of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.