Kim Loesing

Kim Loesing

Kim Loesing, the Program Director for MUST Cherokee, along with the dynamic Cherokee staff and volunteers, develops, implements and manages multiple services for the Cherokee County community in need. Kim enjoys promoting MUST Cherokee informing the community of current programming and needs through civic interaction and collaboration for additional programming.

Education and Work History:

Civic Involvement

  • Kim believes in strengthening the community through volunteerism and has served as a Meals on Wheels volunteer, provided lunch and support to individuals living with AIDs, participated as a member of the Cherokee Ministerial Association, and was active in the preliminary development of the Latino Initiative Network of Cherokee through Cherokee FOCUS. Kim defines community as something larger than the zip code in which she lives and has served this larger community through 4 international mission trips and 3 domestic trips.
  • As a member of the first class of Leadership UMC and a member of Leadership Cherokee 2006, where she was presented the Cristal Stancil Leadership Award, Kim has enjoyed getting to know others as well learning more about her denomination and her county.
  • Kim is a member of the Canton Rotary Club-past historian, the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, The Housing and Homeless Council of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church-past secretary and member of Hickory Flat United Methodist Church.

Education and Work History

  • After attending Central Missouri State University, Kim completed her Bachelor of Science Degree at Kennesaw State University, majoring in Public and Social Services where she was a member of both the Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key Honor Societies graduating Summa Cum Laude.
  • Working in many different capacities in 3 different regions of the United States Kim considers her two most unique positions to have been a map analyst for the Kansas City Police Department and a Child Support Enforcement Agent for Georgia's Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit.
  • Kim began with MUST as a volunteer interviewer and then volunteer chaplain 7 years ago moving into MUST employment as a Transitional Housing Case Manager followed by Volunteer Coordinator and then Cherokee Program Director in July 2004.