Kimberly Blessing
WaSP Member, Site Implementation
Kimberly Blessing is a Senior Software Architect at Comcast Interactive Media, where she focuses on user interface engineering and web standards. She has been a member of WaSP since 2004, and served as Co-Lead from 2006 to 2008.
Kimberly also runs her own consultancy, KimmieCorp. She previously directed the Web Development Platform Team at PayPal, where she was responsible for driving the creation and adoption of standards, and she held multiple leadership roles at AOL, where she worked on the standards-compliant redesign of AOL.COM in 2004 and the publishing system that allowed AOL to “go free” in 2005.
A graduate of Bryn Mawr College (B.A., Computer Science) and The George Washington University (M.Sc., Computer Science), Kimberly is also an advocate for increasing the number of women in computing and technology fields. She tries to maintain a blog, Obi-Wan Kimberly Is Your Only Hope.
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.