Kim Zalent
Director, Public Education Program

Kim Zalent joined BPI as Director of the Public Education Program in 2003. Prior to joining BPI, Kim served as the Executive Director/Lead Organizer for the South Bronx Churches/IAF, where she co-led a project to create 19 small public high schools.  A founding organizer for Lower Manhattan Together, an Industrial Areas Foundation organization in New York, Kim led a number of Chicago-based initiatives, including the Organization of the NorthEast (ONE) and the Pilsen Resurrection Project.  Kim holds a BA from Valparaiso University.
kzalent@bpichicago.org

Katie Hill

Staff Counsel

Katie Hill joined BPI in September 2007 as a Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow.  She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where she worked for the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic Criminal and the Juvenile Justice Project and was a member of the boards of the Chicago Law Foundation and the Public Interest Law Society.  In addition to a summer internship at BPI, she clerked for the law firm Goldberg Kohn and interned at Children’s Rights (NY).  Prior to law school Katie taught in a public elementary school in San Jose, CA, through Teach for America, and was a teaching fellow at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA.  She graduated from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA in Public Policy.

khill@bpichicago.org