Dr. Kimberly Rosenfeld is a tenured faculty member in the Communication Studies department at Cerritos College located in Southeastern Los Angeles, CA. Her titles include Communication Studies Professor, Department Chair of Women and Gender Studies, and Department Chair of Education. Kimberly holds a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Cultural Studies from UCLA and an M.A and B.A. in Speech Communication from CSU-Fullerton. During the 2023-2024 academic year she was award Cerritos College’s prestigious Diversity Award for work and dedication to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Kimberly Rosenfeld works to instill civic literacy, citizenship and engagement by co-organizes and co-host, with Patty Robinson (College of the Canyons) and the California Community College Statewide Success Network (3CSN), an ongoing series of Civic Dialogues. Civic dialogues invite esteemed national civic engagement experts to share insights and take deep dives in service of increasing knowledge and awareness of higher education’s civic mission. Her civic engagement work extends to working to develop a statewide community college taskforce to address the civic equity gap among community college students. She also serves as the Cerritos College faculty mentor in collaboration with CSUDH as they implement Govern Newson’s College Corp grant program. Finally, she is a former Board member of the Association of California Community College Teacher Education Programs (ACCCTEP). Dr. Rosenfeld also teaches graduate classes for UCLA’s department of education including: philosophy of education, cultural studies, critical media literacy, and technology in education.