Kimberly Strouse was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
She received a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts.
Kimberly founded and directed Rita Project (2001–2014), a non-profit arts organization that provided permanent and site-specific open art studios to diverse populations across the United States and in Dublin, Ireland. Rita Project partnered with Greenwich House Pottery in New York City, the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Bergamot Station Arts Center in Los Angeles, and the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, as well as other non-profits, galleries, high schools and universities.
In 2018, Strouse graduated from the Chef Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts (now part of the Institute of Culinary Education).
She has styled food for HBO and Netflix, written recipes for BuzzFeed Tasty and cooked for celebrities, Grammy Award-winning musicians, Hollywood film executives and NFL players.
Kimberly and Rita Project are featured in “Destroying,” a chapter in Carla Fernandez’s book Renegade Grief: A Guide to the Wild Ride of Life after Loss (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
Kimberly lives in Joshua Tree, California where she is writing her first book.
strousekimberly@gmail.com / linkedin.com/in/kimberlystrouse / @strousekimberly
