About kd
oakland, ca. may 2020.
Kim Davalos (kd) is a third generation Pinay (Filipina-American) born and raised in Stockton, CA. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, Counseling & Social Change from San Diego State University and her Masters in Science for Counseling from San Francisco State University in 2012.
For the last decade, Kim has resided in the Bay Area as an educator, artist and creative. She first started in the spoken word community and has traveled to perform in local and national competitions to hone in on her voice and narrative she wanted to tell. Kim has a primary passion for staying connected to her surrounding community and values using art, entrepreneurship, creativity, and critical performance art pedagogy in the classroom and specifically within her counseling practices as an educator.
Kim created her own company called kd creatives + counsulting in which she aims to showcase the idea of an "intrapinay creative and educational consultation company", in other words - the ability to explore and express the complex pinay identities and representation through multiple platforms of art and educational pedagogy/praxis at once.
In 2018, Kim self-published her inaugural book of poetry entitled, delilah’s daughter. Since the 2018 release Kim has gone on to travel statewide to perform pieces from the project. delilah’s daughter has sold 1300+ copies to date and has been used in educational spaces from k-12 to community colleges to graduate courses informing curriculum and inspiring students and the communities connected to them. In April 2020, delilah’s daughter has gone through its fifth rendition of print.
Since 2016, Kim also pursued another developing passion project of hers which is the branch of kd photography and ranges in clients from families, soon-to-be mothers, engagements, small businesses, brand consulting, professional headshots, and creatives of the like!
Whatever the medium she may be delving into at the time, through her art that is kd creatives, the intention all comes back to Kim's intersectional identity and the movement of collective community heartwork and radical healing.
4.27.20