Kimberly "Kimmie" Thomas, JD is an exceptional, ambitious woman that is using her commitment and dedication to community and advocacy along with using her legal background career to offer political consulting to impact change that is so contagious for others to do the same. In addition, Kimberly is a serial social enterprise entrepreneur of the following organizations that are all about gaming life, gaming news, gaming careers, and workforce development opportunities. 

IGL Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring people together to learn, compete, and play by providing opportunities for students in the areas of technology, gaming, and the digital arts that are both enriching and entertaining. We do this by producing events of various sizes and scopes that combine industry professionals and local gaming communities to participate in panels, keynotes, and competitive esport tournaments. Through these events and tournaments, we raise funding for all our Youth educational programs. The IGL Foundation leverages the popularity of the $92B-a-year video game industry to get kids excited about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) as well as digital arts. We raise money by running events and tournaments to provide affordable STEM/Digital Arts education programs for students year-round.  

GameHedz is a network made for Gamers providing them with gaming reviews, updates, apparel and news of different Gaming competitions Leagues and events in the local areas. We host a wide range of tournaments and events in multiple different venues including schools, hotels, bars, LAN cafes and even our own centralize Gaming Centers. We also host different Gaming summer camps for kids where the get they get there first look into Game Development and intro to Digital Media Design. GameHedz also launched Project DATA( Digital Arts Technology Advancement) which is a after school program that gave students from different schools a place to learn Digital media design, animation, and video production as well give students that enjoy gaming a place to strategize in completing gaming on PC and Console platforms. 

To learn more about the organizations that Kimberly "Kimmie" Thomas, JD manages visit the website here: IGL Foundation – Independent Gaming League

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