Kimberly Collins

Kimberly Collins, Ph.D. has more than 30 years working and living in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Her most recent experience includes Professor of Public Administration and Executive Director of the William and Barbara Leonard Transportation Center (LTC) at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). In addition to these roles, she is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Borderlands Studies; on the editorial team of Borderlands/Fronterizos Journal; a Nonresident Scholar at the Baker Institute at the Center for United States and Mexico at Rice University, and a 2024 Cross-Border Research Visiting Fellow at the Border Policy Research Institute, the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University and the Borders in Globalization Lab at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria; Chair of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board; and the Founding Director of the California Center for Border and Regional Economic Studies at SDSU-IVC. Kimberly’s current research focuses on local/regional governance, social equity, sustainability, resiliency, and democracy, particularly in borderlands and peri-urban communities.