Kimber Reeves, senior film production and Latin American studies student at Birmingham-Southern College, interned in the marketing department with the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City this summer for three months.

Reeves received this opportunity through the leadership studies program at Birmingham-Southern College. As a leadership studies distinctions student, Kimber was awarded the Hess Fellows Advocacy Internship Scholarship.

The Hess Fellows committee selected Kimber to work at the Clinton Global Initiative in NYC of the 18 possible internship opportunities.

Reeves is also an active member of the film community in Birmingham, AL. Earlier this year she starred in Julie On Her Way, a comedic short film created by award winning director Tam Le. Julie On Her Way screened at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham last weekend where it was awarded the the Kathryn Tucker Windham Award for Storytelling. The film depicts a young woman’s journey through losing her mother.