Kim Harris, Patch Staff

Kim Harris is a veteran reporter and editor with more than 35 years’ experience in the news business and covers the San Francisco Bay Area as a freelance reporter for Patch.

Before joining Patch, she worked as the managing editor for the Valley News serving Southwest Riverside County after moving to the West Coast from Southeast Georgia where she worked as a reporter for the Tribune & Georgian. Prior to her time in Georgia, Kim served as the managing editor for The Tester, the official newspaper for Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Lexington Park, Maryland, and published by Comprint Military Publications.

She is the mother of six grown children and lives in Southwest Riverside County with her husband and two dogs.