Kim Patten is a passionate academic planner, process and sustainable strategy education leader in the Los Angeles office at Steinberg Hart. As the firm’s Higher Education Practice Leader, Kim helps clients navigate complex problems with strategic research, skillful design and planning solutions to achieve direction and clarity. Working with academic institutions across the country, her partnership approach creates an environment to collaborate, plan and discover paths unique to that client. Kim has been actively involved with the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) over the past 10 years, where she is currently involved in the 2020 Pacific Regional Virtual Conference, and as a member of the Facilities Planning Academy.