AUTHOR KIMBERLY HESS: A LESSER MORTAL
Kimberly Hess is the author of A Lesser Mortal: The Unexpected Life of Sarah B. Cochran. Listen to her Big Blend Radio interview here in the YouTube player or download it on Podbean, where she talks about her groundbreaking biography covering the life of Sarah. B. Cochran “The Coal Queen.”
From expanding her company, to becoming a respected benefactor of her community, often rivaling the efforts of more well-known philanthropists such as Andrew Carnegie, the biography “A Lesser Mortal: The Unexpected Life of Sarah B. Cochran” reveals the little-known story of a woman from American history who was constantly doing the unthinkable. The book is available on Amazon.
Kimberly earned a B.A. in Economics and International Relations at Smith College, an M.B.A. from Rutgers Business School, and a Certificate in Historic Preservation from Drew University’s Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. During her nineteen-year corporate career she was also a trustee of the Alice Paul Institute and held volunteer leadership positions for nonprofits at the global and local levels. She has written about or discussed her book for various organizations including WESA 90.5FM (Pittsburgh’s NPR affiliate), the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Women’s History Museum, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. She began doing genealogical research in 1984. Visit her at https://unexpectedlifeofsarahbcochran.com/
