Kimberly A. Lutz (Kim) is the Executive Director of America’s Watershed Initiative (AWI). AWI has been working since 2012 to improve the health of the Mississippi River Watershed by informing, advocating, and leveraging improved decision-making about the watershed’s natural and economic resources. Under Lutz's leadership, AWI has updated our report card process to focus on actions to "raise the grade" and launched a basin-wide partnership program designed to generate broad support and dedicated funding to drive integrated on-the-ground action to improve the health of the watershed and the human and natural communities that depend on it.

Prior to AWI, Lutz worked for The Nature Conservancy, where she initiated and successfully led two multi-state watershed programs along the Savannah and Connecticut Rivers.

Lutz obtained her B.A. from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and her M.S. in Biology from the University of Cincinnati.