By LMHS Staff

Kim Andrews is a 30-year resident of Lower Merion Township in Ardmore and Merion Station. As a single mother, she raised three children to young adulthood here and recently remarried. Kim moved to Ardmore because the racial, economic, and architectural diversity and commercial district there reminded her of Mount Airy, Philadelphia, where she grew up. She has an MA in Preventive Conservation and is a veteran of the regional cultural nonprofit and philanthropic communities. Her work history includes being preservation services officer at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts for eight years; executive director of the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, where she managed the historic site Shofuso Japanese House and Garden for 13 years; and The Fund for Women and Girls, where she is currently helming a strategic planning process to expand grantmaking, advocacy, and educational impact.

What is your favorite Lower Merion/Narberth memory? 
Ardmore Memorial Day parades with my young children; my daily walk to the Ardmore train station to commute to CC for eight years; hearing oral histories of Ardmore from neighbors who had lived and worked in Ardmore for 50+ years when I moved there in 1994.

How long have you lived in Lower Merion/Narberth? In which community?
Queen Anne Victorian in Ardmore near Cricket Avenue and Spring Avenue for almost 20 years; Thomas Wynne Apartments in Narberth for 1.5 years, Merion Station for eight years.

Why do you want to serve on the board of the Society?
I care about history and love Lower Merion. I want to make sure that the collections of LMHS are preserved and accessible to the public and I want to ensure that the history of the historic Black communities in Lower Merion are fully documented in LMHS collections. My MA in preventive conservation will be useful in overseeing collections management and historic preservation practices, in addition to my long experience in board governance best practices.