Kimmi is an editor for Progressive Dairy magazine and a co-host of the Progressive Dairy Podcast. She covers business management, farm safety, mental health, cow comfort, facilities, grazing, organic, niche market and policy topics for the magazine and a variety of dairy-related topics on the podcast. Before joining the Progressive Dairy editorial team in 2022, she spent 12 years working in public relations roles for multiple state and regional dairy checkoff organizations, a major milk marketing cooperative and a state Department of Agriculture. She grew up on her grandparents’ retired dairy farm in Washington state where she was active in 4-H and served as a Dairy Princess. Kimmi graduated from Washington State University in 2010 with degrees in animal sciences and agricultural communications and later received the WSU Dairy Programs Alumni of the Year award in 2013.
Kimmi Devaney
