Kim Selkoe
Kim Selkoe grew up in Boston and spent summers in Cape Cod and Nantucket exploring tide pools and fishing off the docks. A move to Woods Hole to get work as a scientific collections diver landed her in a lab studying lobster behavior, and that led to a Ph.D. in marine ecology at UCSB, 1999 - 2005. Her dissertation work on kelp bass population genetics required fishing throughout Southern California and Baja California, Mexico. In 2007 she created the Santa Barbara Sustainable Seafood Program through the Sea Center. Difficulty accessing local seafood led her to partner with urchin diver Stephanie Mutz to launch a community supported fishery program called Community Seafood that ran 2011 - 2015.
Kim has served as the executive director of CFSB since 2016, a position originally created thanks to support from the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce. She took a turn managing the Saturday Fishermen's Market from
2016 - 2019. In 2018, she partnered with Victoria Voss to start a new Community Supported Fishery program called Get Hooked Seafood. She continues to split her time working for CFSB and Get Hooked. In addition, she has maintained her affiliation to the National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at UCSB.